PAGE TWO With the Editor— 'You Guys Are Lucky: Ex-Editor Brenneman Says EDITORIAL NOTE: All of the editors who. served Collegian since 1925 have been invited to write the 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 BRENNEMAN '37 The Daily Notes, Cannoasburg. Pa, You guys don't know how lucky you are. . I remember a couple of years ago how we'd sit around in the Corner Room, wondering what kind of jobs—if any—we'd be able to get next June and• consoling ourselves with the thought that maybe we could go to work for the government—on the WPA. But some of you guys will be able to land government jobs without even trying—maybe without even finishing school. They're making it easy for you, too. On October 16 you'll get a very special holiday to register for jobs and a couple of weeks after that same of you will be notified to report for work. The govern ment's offer for your services will be one of those things you just couldn't possibly turn down. The pay won't be so much to start—s2l a month .—but in a little while you'll get a raise of nine bucks a month and with all that dough there's no reason at all why you won't be able to. pay back the money you borrowed to help get yourself through college. It's a nice, steady job, too, good for a whole year, so you won't have to go back to. school for quite a while. Maybe you won't have to go back at all if they decide to keep you on af ter a year's training. Even if they do let you go, you'll still be on their list and even if you man age to land a job later on, the government will still have the first chance at your services if some body decides they need more men. They'll put you on the kind of job you want. too. If you're studying engineering, they'll show you how to build bridges in a hurry so the tanks will have something to cross a river on. If you are a. chemical major, you'll learn how to make mustard gas and phosgene, and how to release so it will burn out somebody else's lungs and not your own. If you want to be a bacteriologist, you can be one. You'll learn how to mix up nice cute batches a typhus and pneumococci and, how to load them in shells and bombs. Or maybe you'll learn what to do if somebody drops the same kind of stuff on your side. You liberal artists will have your chance, too, to learn about the "philosophy of blood and sweat"—the hard way. And if you miss out on a job this fall, don't be too discouraged: next spring or next year you may get your . chance. Maybe by that time you'll have landed a job of your own, but of course you'll be glad to give it up in order to accept a post with the government. They just won't take "no" for an answer. Yes sir, you guys are certainly lucky. Those of tics who were graduated a couple of years ago would be pretty jealous if it weren't for the fact that the government may make us the same kind of an offer, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Zuccessor to the Penn State Collegian. established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887 Saturday Morning, October 12, 1940 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania ;Ante College. Entered as second-class matter July- 6. 1934. at the post-office at State College. Pa., under the 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. Patens '4l ; News Editor—William E. Fowler -'4l ; Feature Editor '—Edward J. K. McLorie '4l ; Assistant Managing Editor— Bayard Bloom '4l; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. Hefferan '4l; Women's Promotion Manager—Edythe B. Rickel '4l. Advertising Manager—John H. Thomas '4l Circulation Manager—Robert G. Robinson '4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth. Goldstein '4l ; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis '4l. Alernbcr Pissociated Colle6iate Press Cale bide Die>est Graduate Counselor Editorial and Business Office 313 Old Main Bldg. Dial 711 Marirtrirtz Editor This Is'aue. News Editor This: Issue Wonu•rl's Is , tte E _ Sup'l4>rnor. A:4.4!.Ax1: . Distributor or ___C. Russell Eck Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Dial 4372 _ROSS B. Lehman '42 _George Sehenkein '4l Jeanne C. .Stiles '42 I , n.•dmin • nob JorvLeni THE MANIAC How many times have you heard some alumni, old. or young, say. "You don't realize how much you love Penn State :until you are away from it for awhile?" Well, we have heard it time and time again. And you freshmen persecuted by customs, tribunal, and sophomores like you- are, if you don't believe us take a lok around you at the football game to day, or around town tonight. Figures don't lie. But then you freshmen don't come in for what lam about to say. You've got it--now. See that you hang on to it! I mean SCHOOL SPIRIT. LoUsy's the • word far last Saturday's' cheering and singing(?). I for one am glad that my dad wasn't here when the student .body, 7,100 strong, stood up to sing their Alma Mater and for all the singing they did, Penn State might as well be- a school for deaf mutes. • Below are printed the words to YOUR Alma Mater. Clip them out and take 'em to the game with you this afternoon. Let's not disgrace our selves before the alumni as We did before our folks last Saturday. The Alma Mater Fo rthe Glory of old State For her founders strong and great, For the - future that we wait, Raise the song, raise We song. Sing our love and loyalty Sing our hopes that bright and free Rest, ,0 Mother dear, with thee, All with thee, all with thee. When we stood at boyhood's gate Shapeless in the hands of fate, Thou didst mold us, dear old State, Into me, into men. May no act of ours bring shame To one heart that loves thy name, May our lives help swell thy fame, Dear old State, dear old State: Concerning Mountaineer Out Houses And now that our sermon is over for today, we can get on with the lighter side of this racket. Jus happened to think it's a good thing rushing season is over. What with all these Mountaineer outhouses standing outside a good many of our fraternities in honor of West• Virginia, I'm afraid the boys wouldn't do so good. I know if I were a rushee I wouldn't relish making that dash -on a cold winter morning. Since this is Alumni Weekend, we think it is an appropriate time to pay tribute to two boys,' both honor graduates of Penn State, who are really go ing places in a hurry. This week they had a beau tifully illustrated article on wildlife - in the Satur day Evening Post. We mean Frank and John Craighead. Step up. and take- a bow for your brothers, Jean. The Whole Town's Talking . about; the 41 :P eN ki r , ‘ 7 -- " * e t' at • THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE 129 W. BEAVER THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Nibbling Al The News J. GORDON FAY Labor vs Defense? Several months ago France, to all outward appearances a nation Prepared against Nazi invasion, fell before a German attack with .T suddenness which surprised the rest of the world. • A complete roster of the causes of France's swift defeat will prob abably not come to light for an other 20 years, but the consensus of experts today seems to be that labor problems, complicated by un willingness to cooperate in the gov ernment, were one of the contri buting factors. Today, as guns, planes, battle ships, , tanks and other vital in gredients flow into the seething cauldron of American defense at less than half -the speed which would give this country complete safety, newspapers carry the story of 49 firms being barred from de fense contracts because of viola ations of the NLRB code: It" should be further noted that this policy is merely an informal ruling• by the National ' Defense commission, a very small group of men, and not an actual provi sion of the Walsh-Healey act, reg ulating wages. on government con _tracts. Adding to the confusion, the CIO has threatened a general strike against a company with $600,009,000 worth of government defense contracts on its hands. Labor legislation has made great —and worthwhile—strides in the United States in the past genera tion, and unquestionably_the.work ing man deserves everything that has come his way. But, there would' be no six-hour days, no forty-hour weeks, and no minimum wage laws in a Nazi-controlled United States. Doesn't it strike you' a little bit screwy that a man who tosses a monkey-wrench in one wheel of a production defense line goes to jail for sabotage, while an organ ization which threatens to paralyze one or several whole vital indus tries gets, like Hitler in Czecho slovakia, appeasement? 11111111111 M 111 M 11 1111111111H111111111111111111111111111111111111111 CAMPUS CALENDAR 1111111111111111111111 1111111111111011111111111111111111111111111111111 Golf tournament for Alumni, College golf course, 8 a. m. Campus tour for Alumni, buses leave front Schwab Auditorium, 9 a. m. to 12 noon. Alumni Council meeting, 121 Liberal Arts, 8:30 a. m. . Home economics alumnae coffee hour, main lobby Home Ec build ing. 11 a. m. to 12 noon. Varsity soccer game with West ern Maryland, Beaver Field, 1 p. Junior varsity football with Cornell, Beaver Field, 1 p. m. Varsity football game with West Virginia, Beaver Field, 2 p. m. Fraternity alumni dinners, 6 p. m. ' Non-fraternity dinner, Sand wich Shop, 6 p. m. Presentation of Land Grant Mural in Old Main, 8 p. m. Cider party for alumni, faculty, and seniors, in Armory, 6:30 p. m. Alpha Phi Omega, Boy Scout fraternity, meets 10 p. m. Room 318 , 01 d Main. Pledges and fresh men invited. Skull and Bones, Parmi Nous,. Druids, Friars report to Cheer leader John Dague at 1 p. m. at • Drive -lit Theatre SATURDAY... - - ""WITII LOVE 'AND- KISSES" Pinky Tomlin. Toby Wing Sit In Your Car—See and Hear the Movies I mile west of State College • On Route 322 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1940- south corner, west standsop, Dr gamze cheering sections.- 7 : Forestry alumni * reunion :and dedication of new Forestryhuild , build ing. - Home Economics Building open fo r inspection. Refreshments served. TOMORROW: .. N., • • Induction of new Campus Cen ter Club members, first . floor lounge, Old Main, 7:30 p. m. - :• League of Evangelical students meets 418 Old Main at 7:30 p.. m. Two-year reunion, headquar ters, second floor lounge, .Old Main. MONDAY: Students interested in Penn State weight-lifting society will• organize in second floor lounge, 7 p. in. Delta. Gamma Alumnae meeting at Mrs. Frank Butler, Orlando Apts., 8 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS: Phi Kappa Sigma 50th Anniver sary celebration today and tomor row. Hort Show, Stock Judging Pa vilion today and tomorrow. Meeting of the SpaniSh Club in Grange Playroom Tuesday, 7 p. m. Davis To Speak • - Prof. Donald W. Davis, depart ment of journalism, Will- address a meeting of• high school editors and advisers at Shamokin today on "Opportunities inJournalism." The meeting is sponsored by the' Sus quehanna division of the- Pennsyl, vania: School Press Ass aeration. HICKEY'S. NOW OPEN! 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