PAGE TWO With the Editor— What DDe3 The Future Ho For A Beller Penn Slate I EDITORIAL NOTE: AU 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 A. WILLIAM ENGEL, JR. '4O reporter, Radio Editor, Harriskurg Evening News Scene—The Pennsylvania State University Time—Any Alumni Day after World War II has permitted Penn State's sails to be. unfurled,. "Notice any change, Dad . . . good or had?"- "Sure, numerous changes . . . and, each for a better Penn State, Fred."! "Many days of toil and conscription have been torn from the calendar since you last e2cchanged, words with the Deans, eh Dad? The same. Deans are here on the same stage, but the scenery has changed . .. Let's stroll over to see some of this liew scenery." • "Say, Fred, isn't that the highly publicized Stu dent Union building?" "Yes, indeed." "Is its interior crowded with administrative offices and classroms?" "On the contrary, Dad, that building contains the country's most spacious chapel, an equally large, auditorium, and adequate facilities for un dergraduate extra-curricular activities and. social functions." "Amazing . . . you know, .Fred, it wasn'•t so . miany years ago that we wrestled, with the, mani fold problems that crop, up in the. course of run ning institution as large as this. Such prob.- }.ems, were, not unlike, those of international im portance for our struggle was one , of keeping or ganized a heterogeneous grouß , . . "Yes, Fred, one of the. esse,ntial techniques of promoting peace. and good, will is to establish a .satisfied 'home guard'—one that is furnished, with adequate facilities for relaxing and . exchanging thoughts, opinions, observations ... "Unfortunately, Penn State lacked, such facili ctieS to provide successfully united student-faculty .relationships; adequate space for clubs, especially for the non-fraternity,man or woman; a center for social life, and a home for one of the strongest 'student governments in the country ... "For years the undergraduates whistled intq the wind with a desire that some consideration would. ire given to the erection of a Student Union build ing on the campus . . . with .the hope that some Plutus like Morgan or Rockefeller would be at tracted to Penn State and view the need for such 'a building . . "Yet, the situation remained unmolested . . . "Social and recreational facilities were lacking for thousands of students—the. heterogenotis masses of a type similar to any large institution "A two-by-four office, actually , a part of the Athletic Association offices. represented, Penn State's Student Union . . . "Yes, Fred. that was the situation „in those days gone by. Insignificant as it may appear, that was the situation which created ill feeling among those .students who had facilities available and those who faced only four walls daily, just as the in ternational affairs become muddled by those eon lined to areas not deemed sufficient-for their ex banding activity." "And, now, you notice the change, eh Dad?" "Yes, Fred .. . . and for a better Penn State." THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" . successor to the Penn State Collegian. established 190tt, and the Free Lance. established 1,07 • - Saturday Morning, October 19. 1940 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania Stat.: College. Entered as second-etas.; matter July 5. 1934. at the pest-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—R . iggpird, C. rite= '4l; News Editor—William E. Fowler '41.: Feature Editor —Edward J. K. McLorie '41.; Assistant Managing Editor:— Bayard Bloom '4l; Women's Managing )Aiippy—Atita L. Hefferan '4l; Women's Promotion. Manager—Edythe B. Bickel . "41. Advertising Manager—John H. Thomas '4l; Cir^*+t•*+on Manager—Robert G. Robinson '4l; Seniop Secr4ars , r-Hutkt Goldstch '4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie IL /410.1 . 43,. Editorial and Business Office 313 Old 'Main Bldg. Dial 711. Managing Editor This Issue News Editor This Issue ----- Women's Editor This Lout: Sophomore Assistant _.___ D9wntown Office 112-121 South Frazier . St.-- Diet 4872' _John A. Baer '42 .William J. Me. Knight" '42 _'_Vera L. Kemp '4l __.._-_Rohert. Schooley funinumumminnumitnumukpoluumuumniniumummunutimumurni THE MANIAC 11111111111111111111111010 . 111111;11141111111111111111y1111111111111W1Wp1111111111101111111 The best one we heard abOut the draft registra tion was the one about The sweet young thing who was registering one of our smoother campus char atcers. When she came to that part on the back or the card which asks "any obyious physical de fects?" she put down "mustache," and what's more she had to ask how to spell it! An Undressed Tale t And no figment of my imagination is the story about the frosh who thought that Atherton Hall was Engineering-A until he encountered two scan tily clad coeds strolling nonchalantly down the. hall. No, don't get any bright ideas, fr6sh, those things only work once. What sports editor of what local daily colleg iate newspaper's ears are burning? He forgot to register for the draft. We'd rather spend those, five years in College ourselves and Upsides we're just exactly $9,999.42 short of the required dona tion. Must be nice being sports editor. Anybody Find Any, Feet Around ? The Kappa Sigs, or rather Ralph Sapp, would like to have those two huge barefeet which were in their alumni decoration returned. Ralph is real proud of them because he was the model!! An embarrassing fact has come to our attention, a fact which should be equally embarrasing to the five preceding writers of this column. There is, at this time, residing at Beta Theta Pi a gentleman (he must be) who in five years spent in this great institution, has never had his name mentioned in cne of the Collegian columns. His name is Ronny Crawford. Ronny please. accept our humble appl cgies. It won't happen again. In fact I still can't believe it. • Fro* Beauly.Roli We really, do feel bad that this. column stinks. like it does but we have, a good alibi. We read the CAMPUSEER the other day. To, makeup. in some, small way we are printing a list of the best of the Frosh Coeds. Here they are: There was Shaves, R.' D. and Siebert, M. E.; Wittman, D. M. and Waddell, M.; Story, B. W. and Storer, R. M.; Taylor, J. C. and Saylor, J. C.; Mac -L Lellan, P. C. and McGeehan, B.; Polishuk, E. and Schmelz, H. L.; Podell, B. J. and Meisner, .R. E.; Parke, E. L. and Popp, R. LI Newman, S, R. and Stauffer, E.; Smith, J; K. and Wickersham, L. N.; Shipman, N. A. and Whitcomb, M. A.; Stover, J. E. and Stevenson, F. D. Then too, there was Fiero, J. and Frazier, B. J.; Hewitt, R. I. and Fuchs, A.; . Hazlett, M. A. (um-m-m) and Henninger, J. N.; Graham, J. E. and Kindl, M.; Ludwig, J. G. and Minnich A. J.; McKinney, H. R. and Puskarich, G. C.; Margulie, F. and Miller A. H. A TRUE TREAT . Red Italian SPAGHETTI To Avoid Waiting, Call 9.2721 For Reservatjop._ Also . . . • STEAK DINNERS BAR-B-OUES At The CROSSROADS Restaurant • . • .. B.o.m.sigiaq—P4 The registration, cards issued Ocfobit 16 will be necessary in order to purchase any alcoholic beverage. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Letters to the Editor-- 'Watch Out !' Ex-Editor Warns To the Editor: Some time last summer, in a column for the Collegian, I sought to point out some of the dangers besetting our path to total defense. sought to point that although w,e necessarily were being rushed we should for our own sake ohserve some speed limit, that we should stop at least momentarily to think things through, that we should sbber up and emerge from the drunken stupor that was beginning to turn men and women—like you and I—into mere robots. - Now, I'm not arguing against any destroyer-for-base deal. rin not arguing against conscription. Basically, in view of present cir cumstances, both moves, I believe, will help bolster the nation's de fenses. regret, of course, that -the destroyer-base deal was not offer ed to Congress and to the people before it became an accomplished fact. I regret that the conscription age limit was not extended to em brace a larger proportion of Am ericans—to extend the respond,,-, biLities as well as the privileges, of a democracy to old as well as, young. But what'l regret—what I, fear— most of all, is the, current Unmis takable, trend in American thought, a trend that would justify "alMost anything in the name of .national defense. . . Take, for instance, the edict, Which Dr. Nicholas Iprray tlAutier placed before his Columbia' •• versity. faculty the other week' ' denianding that all professors sign if ,their confliet with the tirs . u.it. of its "ide,als" in "the war betvieem keasts, and. finryip. .13ptpgs."- dollegi4nupheld this on, the thesis- tbat it is wise to, give up. "some democracy" now for "more • democracy" later. But this is not a question of giving up . "some democracy." It is not, merely a question of the freectom, of thought ( CoPtinuqd .ozkR4SP fPltlF) SATURDAY OCTOBER 19 1940 More Jrls . Wanted, Preventionists Cry Dear League for tile evention of Coed-infiltration: So, Penn State Has. Too Many Girls! If the decline in what y . ou have termed the, grand plena State spirit of yore is in any wise at tributed to the influx of women, we are proud of, it. If the lessening of dangerous hazing c 14.• freshmen,. the. relative safety, of' the. Corder Robm ffona blazing bonfires show any, de cline in the, all-holy Penn SAte spirit, we, the women, are hpit ores,l with -the responsibility. If woman's influence on this campus has done thiS much in - 10 years, we say; "There can't be - To9 lylany Girls!" • League for the-Prevention of• Coed-Injustice. Bomber (cop,iinued from page op& the ointment was a certain Herr Hitler waging war. against England and tsying to, blOckade• the British ports... The transfer. of the animal 'from war-torn Europe to Penn State ca,lied for a bit of fancy dodgfng and gauntlet-running. 'The Borither," as he was ap propriately, nicknamed, was held since May, in Scotland, and 'at time it appeared dotibtful it he would, ever be shipped. A consigo:- menfof 15 shorthorn cattle, and 43 sheep was the only shipment.oi its iond, to Nor 'AtrleXI,C4; xqar• Mr. Betrie, a Scotch, lad. sv.gt 4.94 1 50 to, cage for •tlla anima ls, - that th,ey, left ScotlN4l. obi R 1,434 15, in ; a convoy: -of 75 ships. 0.1,n, f'koata, atiornpanie.d. ; the convoy ? .iOr foci;., d,ay.s,. and the party arrived on August' Ate being held, in quarantine At : Quebec for 39, o..ys; the B,on;kb er's release was obtained by, Prot,. W. L. }kenning upon payment, of customs. fees: The Bomber 74s trapsR0Ftpcl to:State Col . lege in the }I back of - professor enning's car.
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