PAGE TWO With the Editor— " Where Can k Tired Liberal Rest A Few Moments!' Brufzman Asks EDITORIAL NOTE:—AII the editors who served Collegian since 1925 have been invited to write tire editorial they would most like to address to Penn State students today. Not all of them have responded.. The editorials of those who have will appear in this column from time to time. By JOHN BRUT2MAN, '35 Proprietor, The Commercial Press, Towanda, Pa, It was great fun, a few years ago, being a Lib eral. If you were a college student, you enlisted as a member of the League against War and Fas cism or the American Student Union, and there you were. Any league against war and fascism looks pretty funny today, and the A. S. U.’s re fusal to condemn Russia’s agression has led to suspicion that all is not well in that organization. Communism, which counted many sincere sup porters among idealists, received well-deserv'ed repudiation when Stalin made his sordid deal with Germany and began to absorb small neigh boring states in' a definitely ‘imperialistic” man ner. The world apathetically watched French indus trialists force the Popular Front government out of power and join forces with the Tories of Eng land to set the stage for what today looks like the complete subjugation of human rights in Europe under Hitler—who, incidentally, wasn’t gentleman enough to enslave only his own people, but who now has his greedy eye on the wage slaves of the same Tories who assisted him to his present suc cess. The liberal looks around this country wonder ing where to turn. Should it be to the Republi cans? We know one well; when we think of his . administration we think of four things—the abo lition of firecrackers, castration of workmen’s compensation, female labor in factories until mid night, and the return of long underwear and high button shoes to the place they deserve^in the hearts of Americans. Should it be to the Democrats, who have ad-, mittedly accomplished much needed social re forms, but largely through the aid of some of the, rottenest city machines this country has ever known? Should a liberal enthusiastically support a policy that continues to permit large shipments of scrap iron and oil to Japan, despite the current hurrah about licensing. And what do YOU highly eligible members of the new $3O-a-month army think about it all, as profit-hungry industrialists continue to sabotage the country’s defense program? Are you ready to die for Democracy and the Tin Supply while Congress solemnly prepares to kick the cover off the excess profits tax? You’d better think these things through while you’ve a chance in the isolation of collegeTife, for when you emerge into the broad bible belts of Pennsylvania, you’re liable to get all confused by the praise still rising for the Almighty Dollar and the Great Engineer. This very tired liberal has. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Successor to the Penn State Collegian, established 1904, and . t{je Free Lance, established 1887 Saturday Morning, September 28, 1940 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1934, at the post-office at State College, Pa., under tie act of March 3, 1879. Editor Business Manager Adam A. Smyser '4l Lawrence S. Driever '4l Women’s Editor—Vera L. Kemp '4l; Managing Editor —Robert H. Lane '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters '4l; News Editor —William E. Fowler '4l; Feature Editor. —Edward J. K. McLorie '4l; Assistant Managing Bditoo — Bayard Bloom '4l; Women’s Managing Editor—Arita L. Hefferan ’4l; Women’s Promotion Manager—Edythe B. Richel ’4l. Advertising Manager—John H. Thomas '4l; Circulation Manager—Robert G. Robinson ’4l ; Senior Secretary—Ruth Goldstein ’4l Senior Secretary—Leslie Hi Lewis '4l. Member Rssociafed Colieftide Press Distributor of i % Golleftiate Digest] Junior - Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42, R. Helen Gordon '42. Ross- B. Lehman '42, William J, McKnight 742, Alice M. Murray '42, Pat Nagelberg ’4?, Stanley J. PoKctd aer ’42, Jeanne C. Stiles. 142, ' Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison *42, £mul M. Goldberg '42.' James E. McCaiighey '42, T. Blair Wallace 742, Margaret L. Embury 12, ytcgaiiia Ogden *42, Sby'jr. Itees /42.' Graduate Counselor Editorial'and Business Office SIS Old'Main Bldg. ' Dipl, TU Managing Editor This Issue —’—Stanley J.' PoKempner '42 News Editor This Issue _ Pat Nagelberg. '42 Women’s Editor This Issue Vera L. Kemp '4l Sophomore Assistants ; -_Jack Olkoin, Clem Obits .0. Rqssell Dfoum " ' ifiiiiiiiiifmiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiinmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiumuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii THE MANIAC iiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimn Before we go any further, I’d like to say a word about Ned Wakeman. Some of you probably never knew Wakie. might not know of him yet, unless you read in Monday’s papers about two men being killed in an airplane crash near Wilkes- Barre and happened to notice that one of them was E. A. Wakeman, Jr., Penn State ’4O. Well, that was Wakie. Wakie “made” this column frequently during the four years or so he went to State. He was mentioned frequently because he was doing' one wacky thing or another all through College. Even now when we, and I use the we collectively be cause there are plenty of us, think of him it is with a grin. A tear-dimmed grin, but still a grin. That might sound disrespectful but it is not meant to sound that way. If you really knew Wakie that is the only way you could think of him. He could dish it out and he could take it. Mostly he look it. Like the time when he was a freshman and was getting dressed for his ROTC parade de but. He had everything on but his shoes, and as usual about a minute to get to parade on time. When he reached down to pick up his shoes they didn’t budge. Some upperclassman had spiked them to the floor. For two minutes he roared up and down hall that freshman or no freshman he was going to lick every blankety-blank upper classman in the house. The next minute he was laughing with his tormentors at his own comical predicament. He could' dish out and ho could take it. Like all really big-hearted men, Wakie was as gullible as they come. He could be taken in by any coy coed of smooth-talking gent that ever came down the pike. - And he knew it. If he liked you, he liked you and all the dirty tricks you could pull on him wouldn’t change that. He was going to come down for houseparty, and alumni day, and every other time he could get the chance. He won’t be here now, but his jokes and stories and expressions will be. And whenever a story is told about' Wakie it will get a laugh and wherever Wakie is he’ll laugh too. Because he loved to laugh and he loved to make other people laugh. So here’s to -you Wakie, it was -a- fluky deal. Off Our Chest Speaking of people reminds us of Jack Heck, he's a wise-cracker too. Jack is,- as he’s probably already told you, boxing manager of the current season. Jack is seeking a spot on the entourage of lovely Betty Vincent, AOPi homeeccer. When the gorgeous Miss Vincent was contacted on the matter, she said, quote “Who’s he?” HaHa. This line is directed solely at Miss Leslie Lewis, belle of the Kat manse. Why, don’t you break —down and give Bob Montz a break? Under that rough exterior lies a heart of gold. To all youse gals who are in doubt as to your emotional appeal with boys, we recommend Dr. Emil Axelson, Kappasig senior. With Ax you fall into one of three categories. Cold, Casual, and (hold your hats boys) Cozy. You might be a peachy dancer, though, so_don’t lose hope. Before we shut up shop and go on with our studies, we have one more brainstorm. Why don’t some you gals, who are playing the grass widow for those alumni, get together and form a Satur day night Sewing Circle? Those three lovely seniors, Eleanor Benfer, Jo Condrin, and Jeanne Smith, would be anxious to join. Or maybe Les lie’s got the right idea after all, huh? " “You cannot save democracy by military vic tories. A democratic government depends upon the disposition of the masses of the people. If the masses have the will and the opportunity to rule themselves, then you will have democracy. This dreadful school Hitlerism is teaching German lib erals to be more realistic, less sentimental, more aware of their power and privileges. They see now, since the alliance with Soviet Russia, that anti-bolshevism was just a film to destroy trade unions, that anti-semitism was afraud to deceive the german people who do not bear the Jews ill-will.” Dr. Arthur Rosenberg, exiled from the University of predicts internal strife will eventually end Nazi oppression. - “Perhaps the most frightening, aspect oi modern war is the intellectual blackout which it creates.' One deles not have to subscribe to H. G. Wells’ grim prophecy that ‘mankind, which began, in a cave and behind a windbreak, will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum” but certainly the night in Europe caimftt tje- lpqg, continued: without the. saqrificq of quLtural/valjie? oft so V4St ascfde that the, chance, o£ an enlightened and; gracious: life, not alone, fOr- this generation 1 in Europe but for the children and grandchildren of this genera tion, will be irretrievably .lost.” Rockefeller Fount dation’s President Raymond B. Fosdick voices fears over the war’s cultural, destruction. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN lllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll CAMPUS CALENDAR iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigiiiiiiiiiiiiiijimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim TODAY: An informal pledge dance will be held at the Sigma Pi Fraternity, between 8:30 and 12 p.m. Admis sion by invitation only. Hillel Foundation membership social at the Foundation building at 133 W. Beaver avenue, between 8 and 12 p.m. New members'only. Fanhellenic tea, Atherton Hall, 2 to 4 p.m. All freshman women are urged to attend and sorority women are requested not to wear their pins. ; PSCA Cabinet "Retreat at CA Cabin leaves from rear of Old Main at 1:30 p.m. Personnel athletic books for the first semester will go on sale at the Athletic Association: ticket office, 107 Old Main, beginning Monday. THe sale will continue until noon 'Saturday, October 5. The price will be $7 plus Federal tax. TOMORROW: ■ Co-Recreation Day activities: •Bicycle breakfast hike to WRA Cabin, meet in front of Metzger’s, •7 a.m. Contests in archery, bad minton, golf, horseshoes, tennis, ping pong, and volleyball, meet in -front of Rec Hall. From 2 to 4 p.m. An important meeting of the ac tive and associate members of the Penn State Players will be held in Room 412 Old Main, at 3 p.m. to morrow. MISCELLANEOUS: All candidates for freshman and varsity gymnastics and for gym managerships should report to Coach Gene Wettstone in Recrea tion Hall at 4 p.m. Monday. Varsity candidates arensked to bring their sport excuses. The first meeting of Forensic Council will be held in 318 Old Main, 4 p.m. Tuesday. First meeting of ASCE will be held at Camp Walker, C. E. survey ing. camp, Monday evening. Cars will leave Engineering F Parking •lot at 6:45- p.m. Informal meeting with refreshments. Agriculture and home economics students wishing to try out for the Penn State Farmer are. invited to an open meeting at the Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity at 7:30 p.m. Freshman home economics stu dents may attend. iiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif Fraternities Reminded To Report Dance Dates Dates of fraternity dances, house parties, and names- of chaperones should be filed with the dean of women’s office at least one week before the event, as . provided in undergraduate regulations adopted by the Col lege Senate. Complete lists of fraternity dances for the weekend will be published each Friday in the Daily Collegian provided dates are filed by 4:30 p. m. Thurs- iiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiniHimiiiiiiimiiiiin . The Jordan Soil Fertility Plots were established in 1881 and are the oldest continuous plots in the United States. » THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATE COLLEGE Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation \ ' SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1940 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimtwiniimnHiiimiiiiiiiiHiiiiU Nibbling At The News iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiir, The story of Britain’s unsuccess ful three-day seige of the French West African port of Dakar may have raised a question in the minds of many as to why Dakar, rather than . other . French-held African, sea-coast cities, was singled out for attack. The' answer is found in the column of Major George Field ing Eliot, author of ‘‘Ramparts We Watch.” According to Major Eliot, the whole of French Africa south of the Sahara would have been drag ged down by the fall of that one city, Dakar. Then, under British and Free French control, that reg ion would .have produced much needed native troops and valuable trade, not only with England but with the United States. It seems that this port is also of extreme importance in the scheme of British defense. In fact/ Major Eliot declares that it is even directly important to us, for, being at the narrowest point in the At lantic, it would provide an excel lent base from which to invade the America. To the British it would mean better resistance to Axis attempts to penetrate the African interior, a “shield” to the Belgian Congo, and in general a good support for operations, and defense in that part of Africa held by the Vichy government. In'short, Dakar is an exceedingly vital- military objective, and, as Major Eliot also' observes, it seems strange that Britain should hack down in itsseige if there were any possibility of success. _ However, there is one refreshing note in the story of British with drawal from Dakar; namely, the fact that that story reached the ears and eyes of the world through regular English new.s channels. This frankness might well m.ean that there is less tampering with the news- in Great .Britain and, consequently, that more credence may be given to British reports than to Nazi' communications. Granf Announces (Continued from page one) Second tenors—Albert Domart ’43, Andrew Federko ’44, Arthur Jones ’42, William Little ’44, Cler mont Powell ’44, Robert T. Struck ’42, ahd James Yeardley.- ! 44. Baritones—Carroll G. Apple man ’43, Howard Atwell ’44, Sam uel F. Crabtree Jr.’42, Harold Farver ’44, Albert' S. Johnson ’43, .Thomas W. Mason Jr.'’43, William P. Mirishall ’43, Robert Phillips ’44, Paul N. Teare Jr. ’43, Wesley Wagner ’44, and Charles - Zierdt ’44. - Basses James Brown ’44, George Dorrance ’44, Richard : Hartswick ’44, William W. Kins ley ’43, George F. Kline ’42, Ralph Lyford ’44, Walter H. Polak' ’43, Henry H. Stoner '42, Leonard-Ur quhart ’44. J. GORDON FAY
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