PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian. established 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1837. 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 5. 1934. at the post-o__ce 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 '41.; Managing Editor —Robert H. Lane '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters '4l ; News Editor—William E. Fowler '4l ; Feature Editor . —Edward J. ,E. MeLorie '41.; Assistant Managing Editor— Bayard Bloom '41.; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. , HeiTeran '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. Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42. R. Helen 'Gordon '42. Ross B. Lehman '42. William J. McKnight "42. Alice M. Murray '42. Pat Nagelbere '42. Stanley J. PoKetwo ner '42. Jeanne C. Stiles '42. Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison '42. Faul M. Goldberg '42, James E. McCaughey '42. Margaret L. Em 4ntry '42, Virginia Ogden '42, Fay E. Rees OEPI.Z9ENTeO FOR NATIONAL ODVERTISINC SY National Advertising Service, Iris College Publishers Representative 440 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. IN. Y. CHICAGO • BOSTON • LOS ANGGLMS • SAN FRANCISCO •Graduate Counselor Editorial and Business Office 313 Old Main Bldg. Dial 711 'Managing Editor This Issue _ News ,Editor 'This Issue • Women's 'Editor This Issue Sophomore Assistants __ Thursday l‘lorning, December 5, 1940 Mrs. Hetzel's Committee Among the . organizations connected with the College that need and deserve "angels" to help them carry on their work is Mrs. Hetzel's Commit- tee which is 'explained elsewhere in today's issue of The Daily Collegian Founded with purely charitable intentions, the 'Committee has proved to be an enlightened char ity and a successful one as some of the case his tories illustrate. Limited funds, of course, haye handicapped the Committee since it was started The College Senate, appreciative of the work done by the committee, last spring voted that the money received from students in holiday cut fines should be turned over for the use of the Commit tee. This recommendation was made to the Board •cf Trustees at the same time the cut check-up was stiffened and the limit boosted from 24 to 48 hours. The Board accepted the stiffened check-up and the time increase but rejected the suggestion that the money be turned over to the Committee, -per haps because the Committee has no official con. nection with the College and because of some fear about setting a dangerous precedent. Thus the Committee, which had hopes of an im portant source of revenue, is back to depending on charitable gifts to enable it to carry on its work. Student groups have from time to time sponsor ed benefits for the Committee but it remains for any substantial and dependable source of income to be found. Believing this to be as worthy as war relief causes 'because it is far closer to .the College, the "'Collegian suggests that some definite campaign be started either by the Committee 'or .by those in terested in it so thatthe :group may .have at hand ;more funds to work with. !Beautiful And Vnmelgsted •Sponsored tby the State College Commerce -Club, life 'borough is .planning •to erect and light 100 'Christmas trees, the work 'to •be complete this weekend. ;Because , of •its experience •in the vast and not from any Instinctive distruSt•of !student 'tempera merit, represeritntives of the chin have had occa 'sion to *make an appeEd 'to the students 'not to wreck the decorations. Whether they expect .fraternities . to get 'their Christmas trees•off •the downtown nnSts'or 't'l#lo 6 t get 'their lighting •parpheruilla there is not quite 'elem.. 'The eldb•might 'have some•En:Minds for this :if. it did 'think so. 2s, 'few years ago a surprising nurnl3er of !bulbs disappeared - or "were "broken. 'Where tis, ItOurse, a•jaft , perutity `for such , 131 , Ifefige. • lithe twithterce flltib, `however, lhas fruit ?meritioneB thdt. peithaps 'has ndt (even thought tit ;it. All :It 'has - tiSked 'is 4 thlit itt decortitiOnt—Atiddh it :has gone 'to •considerible 'trouble 'to prociae—:be allowed to stand, beautiful and unmolested.' —A'. Russell Eck Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St Dial 4372 __ .Ross B. Lehman '42 William J. McKnight '42 .Vera L. Kemp '4l Bon Davis. Bob Schooley THE CAMPUSEER • • imitimmimmimummimmummirminiummimitimmummumummum Despite the gratifying plug in the Post-Gazette; .Penn State is not going to the Rose Bowl. Sunny, balmy California is not to be the lot of the Hig gins hurly-burly-burlies and their enthusiastic frost-bitten following. No Trocadero, no Holly wood Hotel, no Catalina Island. AU of which leaves us still 3,000 miles from Betty Grable. • Among The Amorous LeSlie Lewis, pride of Kappa Alpha Theta, has consigned her other two fraternity pins to the 'bureau drawer and is now sporting Bob Montz's Kappasig sparklers . . . other Thetas who made out: Gertie Helimers, who annexed Bill Dor worth!s .phigam jewelry, and Ibby Kinsloe, who raft 'the charm on Bill - Henning and carted off his sigmanu badge ... . Johnny Fowler recently planted his deltachi badge on winsome aopi Betty Vinson . . . Barbara Newton:has announced her engagement. to a Penn State grad . . . Helen Westbrook aopi is sporting jewelry of Ned Plum. R and D pharmacist—evi dently he knows the right prescription . . Eddie Harris, according to reliable authorities, has pinned a lovely transfer . . . but cheer up, girls— Gazzy Green is still playing the field . . . Dutch Vosters '39, who might have had something to do once upon a time with one of the pins in Leslie Lewis' drawer, is engaged to Bunny Harshaw, ace female racket-wielder of the Philadelphia area. Dutch was once business manager of Penn State's outstanding student publication. • This Baffling World The complexity of modern transportation was dramatically demonstrated last weekend to Bill LaPorte, suave Sigmanu smoothie who boarded a philly subway thinking it was a train to Baltimore . . . imagine his surprise on disembarking to find himself, not in the Maryland city, but in the some what crummy section of Philadelphia known as the "end of the line." Tales From Taxation It seems that Professor Wueller. master of the slur and keen judge of the finer things of life, was asking his befuddled taxation class (which is in no way related to certain courses in supercolossal salesmanship) for examples of site value. which, it seems, is stuff which can't be reproduced by Said a comely coed: "Site value? How about human life itself?". Pityingly Dr. Wueller regarded the young lady as he replied: "My dear, you are the first woman in my experience who ever suggested that human life cannot be reproduced." A Salute To The 100 3 To the four hundred sundry guys that stood in line yesterday morning waiting for the A. A. ticket windows to open up so that you could push your cold cash across the window and collect the much sought-after Artists' Course tickets, A Toast. But let's be smart about this thing, why not put that foldin' green into a gift for the little lady? Down at McLanahans you'll find the niftiest little `Purse Pouch' by Revlon that .you ever saw. It consists of nail polish and lipstick and they give it away for a few cents more than the price of four movies. That is, if you go to the evehing show_ Co-Ed Economics It seems to 'be the general consensus of opinion around here that Co-'Eds aieret - teiy"%•rnart, eco nomically .speaking. (WOW! - That 'oualata *bring down a shower of wrath gets by,theedif tor.) .they don't 'have •to be smart alx - .nt book learnin' and things if they're. smart.: } about-what they're ;going to give .11ihturyEortunicef the stVell est and smoothest fella that ever 1111:the'campus; 'this Thrigtrnas. Even if you never 'took a bauite - yotroudhta 'be able *to 'figure ottt 'how 3rou can save enough °Ma your ;allowance - to .pick up one .of those smocithie little Ronson ',Lighters -that'-Mc.; tanahans are 'featuring feint - One Zollar4lity up: We Were 'Chilly Posit& Honest 'we were. • We really,4h'ank that Co-Eds are very, Vt 4 37 smart, -ecull;:nicallirltriealcipg.- And we *ow* thdt The ulitti4nutrtAnn:fs,:kr . d 'forward 'to receiVink /nine 'bre Iff 'the 'leading Thee 'iteratdrea Arden. Max Factor, Mnieopti D t ißa . Itt/t ) ..instein•or Evening ;in:Park • Advt. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Letters to the Eiiitor-- Reader Disagrees With Collegian Editorial To the Editor: Wednesday's Collegian had a couple of editorial comments with which I disagree. "As Britain fails our own day of reckoning .is drawing nearer." , Why? Is Hitler going to Storm the Armory and Carnegie Library when Britain. fails? Why would we be obliged to go to war against Germany? I can under stand why some people really think that we will be invaded. Certain groups in America -have 'tried hard to . scare 'the people; and they have built up a success ful hysteria. But more people think we must go to war because they will lose money if Britain fails, or because Britain , is fight ing for democracy and so must we. "In waiting we have only made our own job harder." I guess this means that wars are easier when you start them early. It would have been an easy war if we had marched on Berlin before • . Hitler invaded Austria. Or 'better yet, perhaps we should not have made an ar mistice in 1918 until every Ger man had been annihilated. • This would be practical militarism; this would prevent the American- German War of 1941. I do not doubt that we will get into the war, but I don't think it will be because Britain failed. We will get into the war because those in America who think they have something to gain from , the war will have decided our policy. I don't think we will be 'sorry we hadn't got into it sooner. Wars aren't much fun. The reaction will be closer to 'being sorry for "having got into it at all. When the war is over _and its .misery and suffering are lessened perhaps people will see their ideals in the slime and wonder -how effective the war 'was to save anything. They will have lbst freedom and economic security because they thought -they needed armed force to save them. 'Freshmen To Arms,' A Sophomore =Urges To the Editor: It is time that a stupid prac tice be brought 'to the attention of. the Penn State public, and es pecially to the notice of the fa culty. Too long has "hazing" gone on in State College; too long have groping, bewildered, stumb ling, freshmen been accosted with "Injustice" Corbin, and his slimy stooges. ' Too long has the powerful !but disunited majority been humiliat ed and "infantized" by a sadistic group of bullies, with . a perverted sense of humor. Too long has our learned faculty, stuffed with wis 1-dom, tolerated a contemptible practice, with a -toleration -befit ting a moron of -eight. ask you, The FacultY,. to -abol ish 'hazing... I. ask. you, Freshmen, to act if the Faculty does not. Let December lath be "Freshman Independence Day:" trnite, cas-' tigate the . Tribunal, make them 'wear sandwich Signs; ..itisike 'them ; 'dance IVlsiztlekas - front 'IR :01d. tiet the • Whole spowerfol.4fresh-. Inan - .class , tidff .Customs 'that day, arid..etablish a prdeeilerft:?Of !no more. hazing for :eternity at• .Penif State. - Let- the;- ast clod'-'of dirt . :be. reinoved train the name itif onr; Alma -Water. • • . Bernard &Cu* '43 P.S. I expect the • Tribunal's secret ..police anytime •:now. • • A Reader 'Expresses *no! Of A Polity To the Editor.: 4 wish to express -approval and delight over reading yOur leading editorial -in the -issue • Of- Decem-* , Itri:s:ba.sed. - ow a consideration the dads and •of._the' tundarnentat viewpoints of Vie ttvo lam -glad Id :see leurliistatieea -;presenting THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 19-10 Stanley Ulick '43 Nibbilig--: . :.:.'::::,::. Al The News nnmmmmmn►nnimmimiunumiunnunnnm►unm Defense Only? The 'United States is going to fight only in defense—or is it? - ' As much as most people in this country would tate to frankly admit the fact, the answer to this -question is still quite unknOWn, but pages 14 and 15 of Monday + s New York Times would seem to give some little indication ofhow two groups feel—one group feel ing that the immediate entry of this country into the European conflict is necessary, the other fighting tooth and nail to keep this nation from a foreign war. " • On page.l4, headlines shotiftliat General 'John F. O'Ryan, Wartirtie commander of New York's Twen ty-seventh Division, says that we• ,are next on "Hitler's List;" and that we should enter the war now, while we have an ally. •.' We weren't around in 1917, but, if our history 'books are correct, such statements began to .appear in American newspapers about '24 years ago. And then, page 15 shouts right back across the fold with a full page advertisement, its headlines being, "Her Daddy for Defense Only—Ncit For Foreign Ware' Complete with well-reasoned warnings and a coupon to be re turned with funds for a drive 'to keep this nation out of war, this advertisement is sponsored by Scribner's Commentator, a maga zine which makes it its - business to keep in touch with and inter pret current trends. Such a publication must occa sionally hear things, -"off-the-rec ord," from • Washington and have other sources of information:-nOt available to most people. It could just possibly be that it has "inside dope," spelling W-A-R. • 'Maybe that cartoon• showing:: a conscriptee -with "To be used only in the Western Hemisphere" tat tooed on his cheSt has.something. Doherly '42, Loeber '43 To Chairman Talent Night Theodore Rice '4l, president/of the Penn State Club, announced that co-chairmen l'or.the All-Col lege talent night will be Geiald F. Doherty '42 and William B. Loeber '43. Auditions for the program, which will occur just .before - the Christmas holidays, will be:held next week. All 'those wishing:4o .participate should hand in their names at the Student Union offiee. There will be a .$l5 first prize, a $lO second prize, $5 third prize, and a complimentary award of $2 to all other participating ects....ln order to assure satisfactory prizes for the beSt ainpus - 'talent will 'be a ten cent admission charge.. . Three / Delegates le n d Student Union Ml Arnold LaiCh, Itesident; B. .13artholo :mew; Senior class :president; -,and• 4ecitgel..toorfavan, assistarit man ager ni 'Student :Union, left terday aterncioh 'to , attend• twenty:4ll'A - atinuOl conferentejsf i the.Assticiatitai.of - College 'Unions ift :Philadelphia 'today, lontortovir i and :Saturday.. • • 'Six - round 'table :disdussians dealing 'With social and . bitstness TtiliCies'Of Tele:rid •intereat to union leaders will ileaffliglit 'the 'Teo - .gram. 4 8tudent .delegates will,ithen have two meetingsthdir •Ingn to discuss 'specific problems .of in terttt to 4111. ..viewpoint ;from. that .of the-Peace .Azthai4uuk Isolationist group who Seem Atr..expecit' 1110110p01 4 r :_.3f _ . • •• . -• ' ; • •A§sistarit Viiiresior • tScience..
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