PAGE TWO With the Editor— An Amazing Thing, This Draft. Which Way Does 'ihe Road Lead This draft is an amazing thing. From th day two years ago when we threw a ROTC rifle into the air tocelebrate the peace at Munich the world has come a long way. In those days prophets and peace-mongers even told us what road we would travel on the way to We read the signs and told ourselves that • was no road for us. Today we are traveling along it at full speed, sure it is the right road and the right direction, still a bit sorry that it must be so. We are as sin cere today as we were two years ago. That is the amazing thing. We have come a long way since President Roos evelt 13 months ago on a Sunday night just after war had broken told the nation it must be neutral in deed. if not in thought. Today we are neither, and we are glad of it. For that change the immediate cause is France. We had read about little people•and little nations fall ing under foot and were properly shocked, but it took France to really jolt us. The tales of fifth column and sabotage of the political structure only clarified our own situation, made clearer the road we have to travel to preserve our way of life. We have foregone the idea of peace and unin terrupted continuance of our present way of life. That we are accepting the draft shows that we have accepted the crisis. This is important. There are more steps ahead of us. Taken gradually. they_ will be no harder to traverse than those V,e , have traversed until now. It is too bad we must waste the time. Until we accept war, there are a few steps to be . traveled. It is a logical step in the series we have been following. The only preventitive would be a swift British victory. Prolonged British fight ing would bring us into the war soon. Immediate British defeat will restore peace for a time but capitalism and totalitarianism will not live peace fully for long in the world that follows. If we will admit that our way is the weaker and less desirable we need not fight. We can agree with Anne Morrow Lindberg that what is now go ing on in Europe is revolution, that the accumu lated aspects we have , learned to hate are only the scum on the surface of the wave, that rather than waste blood against the inevitable we should change now and peacefully. We apparently are not ready to admit these things. We are willing to. accept preventitive measures: Destroyers to Britain, bombers to Britain, and American men into the army. We are going to defend our way of life. We are arm ing for defense, still hoping it will keep us out of war. The Collegian before has taken the poSi tion that we will not be kept out of the war. It still holds to that view and it believes that even war is preferable to premanent and' irrevocable tGtalitarianism. The draft is a sign that we are accepting this sit uation. We are accepting the idea that democracy is better than Fascism and the difference is worth fighting for if necessary. Our next job is to stop being half-hea.i:ted. Since I 938 we have come a long way, but the road ahead is still full of toil and sweat and, maybe, blood. There is one thing to be said for the record. The Collegian has never advocated immediate armed intervention in this war. It believes intervention now would be futile. It has urged, however, that we take all other steps possible to prepare our selves to put up the strongest fight possible when the moment comes at which our aid will count for something real. This is war-mongering. but it is also facing the facts. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Successor to the Penn State Collegian, established 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1887 Wednesday Morning, October 16, 1940 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students 'of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered ns second-claws matter July 5, 1931, nt the post-ofiit,.. et, State Collegs, Pa., under the act of Mar, 3, 1873. Edina: Adam A. Smt-zer iktors '4l ; No.w, EE. Foe, kr '4l : Elitor rio '4l : ' nagi..l;: Editor Lay:. '4l : irnon's Editov ---ArilLa L. leflrran '4l ; Promotion Manager—Edythe B. Bick.l %It . Advertising Manager—John H. Thomas '4l; Circulation Manager—Robert G. Robinson '4l ; Senior Secretary—Ruth Goldstein '4l Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis '4l. Editorial and Business Office 313 Old Main Bldg. Dial 711 Manntring Editor This Issu:. New.: Editor This Issue Women's Issue Editor . Sophomore Acsistvit 13usirs...3 r...7 , ar.a0r Lawrence S. Dr'....• , ,-.2:- '4l _ yia~ Glita; MENEM - Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Dial 4372 _Ralph C. Routsong. Jr.' '4l __Stanley J. PoKempner '42 ________Jeanne C. Stiles '42 Jana.. D. Olkein A LEAN AND HUNGRY LOOK 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111M From what we've been able to glean from the reports of our spies, this past week-end was not wpat could be called with justice a Heller. Indeed, the local gendarmerie informed us that it had re ceived but one complaint from the outraged cit izenry. And that merely because of a besotted .gentleman who fell asleep on a horn button in an automobile that apparently was not his own. The Corner reported nothing beyond the ordi nary, with the possible exception of two students who, having become enraged at each other, spent several happy moments throwing food about. Re sides' man on horseback could add nothing to any thing. The cab business has lost much of its for mer romance. We were fairly disappointed at these indications of a growing sadness on the part Of one and all. Down hi the Dog4iouse there was naught of the unusual; Saturday' eve ning however, our statistician ' has' 'discovered, more people per square inch were tossed out than on any previous Sat. Eve. of Alumni Week-end, fiscal year ending June 1941. As our gentle reader will probably have heard, one of Life Magazine's gentlemen was roaming about the town this past Saturday. Taking pic tures of a Mr. Jefferies and cohorts. When Life's man, a photographer by trade, discovered tliat there was also a first class Pep Rally there for the shooting. Ridge Riley with the hairtrigger judg ment so common among his ilk, immediately tele graphed Life magazine for permission to get sev eral shots of the event. That was in the 'afternoon. So, comes 7:30 and. Life wires our boy permission. That is to say the wire arrived in State College at the aforemention ed hour. The photographer received the wire at Rec Hall at ten minutes after eight. Post Mer idian. Which, being translated into simple mathe matics. means that it must have taken some forty minutes for the wire to get from Allen street up to Rec Hall. Sort of an all-time record for some thing or other. Perhaps this is but another bit of hand-writing on the wall. Perhaps we Americans are getting soft. At least the telegraph boys aren't showing the way towards the better life. No pun intended. We have this from a friend of ours. Its veracity is questionable. But Leyden, son of Leyden got rid of his jewelry by the simple process of giving it to Jackie Reese. Any denials will be given full ap plication. But we don't expect any denials. _ . Some one would do well to take the latest at tempt at a ROTC band and slug it gently but firmly behind the left ear. The band's rendition of the Star Spangled banner, during the last pa rade was nothing if not sad. We offer the sugges tion purely in the spirit of aesthetic purity, STATIONERY College and Fraternity Seal • STATIONERY Name and Address or Monogram STATIONERY Sx Pc for Men a nd. Viose! Finest Crake Papers Moderately Priced THE COLLEGE BOOK 'STORE 129 W. BEAVER THE DAILY COLLEGIAN —Cassius Nibbling Al The News J. GORDON FAY Whispering Thus far the 1940 Presidential campaign has been marked •by more than the usual mud-slinging, with both candidates being the recipients of plenty of the moisten ed dirt, but the latest low blow takes the prize. We refer to the "smear Willkie" whispering cam- - paign in which. the Republican nominee is called a "tool of Hitler." It .seems doubtful that such a campaign would issue from Mr. Wilikie's opposition. A hint as to the source from which such state ments might emanate may be found in Edmond Taylor's recent article, "Yes, We Have Fifth Col umnists," in "America." Mr. Taylor says, "Whispering 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 CAMPUS CALENDAR 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Meeting of the Deutscher Verin at 7 p. m., Hugh Beaver Room, Old Main. Freshman Independent meeting at 7 p. in. in room 405 Old Main. Freshman women have received permission from WSGA Senate to attend. Tryouts for upperclassmen in terested iri debate to be held at 7 p. m.'in room 8 Liberal Arts. Community Service Committee meets in Philotes room at rp. m. with Jean. Weaver presiding. Student Faculty Relations Com-, mittee meets in the Penn State in China room, Old Main, 7 p. m. WRA second Open House in White Hall from 7 to 9:30 p. m. tonight. Soph Hop committee meeting, 318 Old Main,.7:3o p. m. • Cwen meeting in WSGA' room, White - Hall at 7:30 p. in. Iota: Sigma Pi open house for women in chemistry, 8 p. m. Meeting of the business candi dates 'and staff members of the Penn State Farmer in room 308 Old Main at 7:30 p. m. No Druid meeting as scheduled today. CINEMANIA Mickey Rooney and Judy Gar land' provide music with laughs in "atrike Up the Band," musical romance, coining to the Cathaum Theatre on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.. Aided by June Preisser and oth er juvenile players, Mickey and Judy organize . a swing band in high school. Their adVentures range from staging a comical trav esty on old time playS to winning Paul Whitman's prize. Song favorites-in the picture in clude, "Nobody," "Our Love Af fair" and Gershwin's "Strike Up the Band." Row feu can q.el feum , COLLEGE SEAL ... on your choice 8 useful artic $lO and a box top from' a package of MARLIN BLADES Made of high speed surgi cal steel, scientifically sharpened and honed .... finest blades money can buy—or your money back! Double edge-20 for 25c. Single edge-15 for 250. Mail tr bill and a box top (single or double-edge) THEArint FIREARMS CO. to Marlin today! 17 EAST 42nd STREET, NEW YORK WEDNESDAt, OCTOBER 16, 1940 campaigns which blacken a lead er's 'character create a doubt which is deadly to morale . . . Anyone who spreads such rumors - (un knowingly) helps the Fifth Col umn." Reading farther in the "whis; pering campaign" pamphlet dis tributed by a shadowy ,organiza tion, "the Guardians of the Repub lic," one finds the following state ment: "Today, Nazi agents in the United States are saying that Wen dell L. Willkie, if elected President of the United States, will be the focal point around which the 18,- 000,000 Americans of German de scent will be organized into a spe cific group whose ties of blood and fate are with Nazi Germany." If such a plot is in existence, the writer of this column would like to stick his neck*out to the extent of saying that Adolf Hitler has a considerable factor of error in his Calculations, both in regard to cooperation from Mr. Willkie, Mr. Roosevelt or any other Amer ican in -the public eye, and in re from a Pennsylvanian of German descent. r o rin Opposite Old Main - State College tte ,ague Book Mean (ny
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