A i GE TWO
THE INCILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian.
established 1994, and the Free Lance. established 1887.
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
Slate College, Entered as second-class matter July'6, 1934,
e.t the pact-o__c.e at State College. Pa.. under the act of
arch 3, 1819.
Editor Business Manager
Adam Smyser '4l ' Lawrence Driever '4l
Women's Editor—Vera L. Kemp '4l ; Managing Editor
—Robert, H. Lane '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters
; News Editor—William E. Fowler '4l; Feature Editor
.--Edward J. K. McLorie '4l ; Assistant Managing Editor—
lEta y ard Bloom '4l; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L.
-an '4l ; Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel
'4l,
Advertising &Tanager—John H. Thomas '4l ; Circulation
Xi aI) cimr—Robert G. Robinson '4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth
Cold , o,ein '4l: Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis '4l.
Junior 'Editorial Board—Jotin A. Baer '42. It. Helen
Col'lon '42. Ross B. Lehman '42, William J. McKnight '42.
Alice M. Murray '42, Pat Nagelberg '42, Stanley J. PoKemn
iner '42. Jeanne C. Stiles '42.
Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison '42. Paul
Goldberg '42, James E. McCaughey '42, Margaret L. Em
i.ozry '42, Virginia Ogden '42, Fay E. Rees . '42. •
Ciaduate Counselor
4 , 11 - ThArial and Business Office
113 . 01 d Main Bldg.
Dial 711
ilyiftitaiting Editor This Issue Pat Nageiberg '42
News Editor This Issue Richard A. Bakee'43
Women's Editor This Issue - _R. Helen Gordon '42
Assistant Managing Editor This Issue __Robert Vv. Cooper '43
Tuesday Morning, January 7. 1941
Us, Democracy, The Free Press,
—And The New Year
New Year's resolutions are not as popular as
they once were but everybody who welcomed 1941
end the new decade can afford a New Year's wish.
The decade promises to be an important one for
the world politically and perhaps the best and
-..s,iost selfish wish every American can make. for
4iiniself and for the nation is that he can see the
•
•)cKt decade ushered in with America as well sit
- tiat..?.d as it is now and more safely so.
Our principal disease today is not caused by the
)pelt of anything. only by the threat of many lacks.
We can hope that the 1940's will see them pass at
the least possible cost to us.
• One of the things which many fear is that we
Inlay lose our democracy and our self-determin
ation. The press cf the next 10 years will in some
degree decide whetter this may happen and in an
ramost perfect correlation will show us whether
this has happened.
Democracy needs a sentinel and a champion.
.Tri free speech and the free press it has both. If it
ketains them we will know that democracy has
been retained. . . .
The free press is a jealous and a selfish chain
vlon of democracy. It and democracy have ex
.i,stences so close as to be almosl inseparable. When
the one falls so must the other.
In the years to come there will be strong voices
crying that the free press must be throttled. We
bisye heard one of them already from a source no
mss respected than the president's cabinet. That
One was soon lost in the uproar, but there will be
-Wore and they will. be stronger.
In the past 18 months we have seen our minds
changed about many things. Our thinking is be
coming hysterical but it is not yet too late. Presi
dent Roosevelt said rightly that it will never be
c arlier - than now.
One of the thingo we must decide now if we are
to see our wish for 1951 come true is that we will
adhere constantly to free speech and the free press
and will not see tl•Pm torn from Us.
If in 1951 Americans can still write or say what
they think, required to seek no counsel but one
they want, knowing that what they say need pass
400 censor, they wail know their efforts of the
940's were not useless.
No Word From The IMA
Christmas is past, but there is no word from the
Independent Men's Association about what it is
going to do
That busy organization with a potential mem
bership of 3,500 men and an almost unfathomable
field of possible action has maintained a bleak
official silence about Collegian's pre-Christmas
I" , oggestion that it find something to do or disband.
Unless, and Collegian hopes this is not the case,
H considers as an answer its action of December
18, there is only silence.
That night 10 members meeting in regular ses
rlon took the most constructive of constructive
actions in deciding they were against boOing at
ltec Hall events!
Collegian renews its request and in
. more spe
cific terms: Either the IMA should show—by
fiction, not words L-an alert membership and a
:pecific-program filr independent men or it should
lose its representation' in the All-College Cabinet
rtd be replaced in all' for,ms of student activity
;,nd control by a more suitable and. aggressive or
gnization at non-fraternity men.
C. Russell Eck
Downtown Office.
119-12.1 South`Fratier St
Dial 4372
War Opinion Of College Students
Has Changed According Jo Poll
By Student . Opinion Surveys
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 6.—Although still more
oPtimistic about the United States staying out of
war than the general public is, American college
students have lost some confidence during the last
twelve months that. we can avoid the conflict.
This is the tenor of national campus opinion to
day expressed through the cross-sectional samp-
IMgs of Student Opinion Surveys - of Anierica. The
Daily Collegian is one of the 150 college news
papers cooperating in conducting these scientific
polls.
The defense expansion program that this coun
try is now witnessing will be a factor in helping
to keep us out of the. European conflagration, two
out of every three collegians believe. Asked by
Surveys' interviewus whether they "felt the en
largementof our army and navy will help to keep
us out of war or draw us closer to war," these
were the answers given, in percentages
Will help to keep, us out
Will draw us closer
Exactly one year ago, in December 1939, Stu
dent Opinion .Surveys sampled the college world
with this question: "Do you " believe that the
United States can stay out of the present war?"
That was shortly after the German invasion of
Poland and the beginning of 'general hostilities.
The question has been repeated, and this is the
comparison:
Believed we can stay out; December 1939 _69%
Believed we can stay out. December 1940 ..63
Cross-tabulations show that opinion among col
'ege men and among co-eds is identical. •
39 Percent of Students Read Editorials
By Student Opinion Surveys
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 6.—Do college students
tead the editorials in their campus newspapers?
The college editor often feels what may be the
apparent futility of composing and publishing ed
itorial comment, hut statistics on college reading
habits just produced by Student Opinion Surveys
of America bring a new note of encouragement
and furnish one measurment of the power of the
undergraduate press
Interviewers over a cross section of representa
tive colleges and universities stopped students on
their campuses, and placing before them the edi
torial page of their own newspapers, asked, "Have
you,.read any of
_the editorials on this page?"
Those who answered yes were further queried,
`Completely or only partly?" Here is the national
tabulation:
Has read editorials—
Completely .
Only partly ....
Had not read editorials \
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Letters to the Editor--
Loan Fund Urged
For Class Gift
To the Editor
Keeping the practical value of a
class gift in mind, I suggest that
the class of '4l turn their balance
over to the Dean of Men .to be
used as a loan fund for students.
I would like to qualify the term
"students." There are over a thou
sand students working their way
through college. By working
through many hours at any kind
of a job, these people are spending
less time on their schoolwork as a
result of which their college aver
ages suffer. They do not have a 2.5
average and therefore are unable
to benefit from the many "scholar
ships" that are available to high
scholastically ranking students.
'Why not let the class of '4l loan
fund be available to all students?
Make the average required to get
a loan a 1. This average includes
almost all of the students who are
working their way through college.
This type of loan fund is the
most practical, if not the most
needed gift that our class can.
leave to Penn State.
Bells Rang—But
In The Wrong Place
To the Editor
In the write-up of the carol sing
it was stated that the rendition
of "Silent Night," following the
carol sing, was played on the Old
Main bells. May I ask when the
bells were installed?
"Silent Night" and the other
carols that were heard were play
ed on the Memorial Tower Chimes
of the First Presbyterian Church
of State College. These chimes
were dedicated on the 50th anni
versary of the church on Decem
ber 1, 1940. Am I right?
A Reader
Discussion Offered
On Chapel Fund
To the Editor:
In view of the fact that a com
mittee of our student government
is investigating a plan whereby
one chapel offering a month would
be turned over.to British War Re
lief or Mrs. Hetzel's Emergency
fund, we would Hitt to state the
merits of the present projeCt in
China, carried on by means of the
Chapel collections. We think Penn
State in China is of so much im
portance right now that no sup
port of the project should be with
drawn.
Penn State in China is a stu
dent enterprise organized in 1911
under the leadership of G. W.
"Daddy" Groff 'O7. Penn State was
one of the first American colleges
to recognize its obligations abroad
and to establish relations with a
college in the orient. The students
chose to devote each Sunday's of
ferings to the support of Canton
Christian College,/ now Lingnan
University. Lingnan is a regularly
chartered, first class university,
and it was established in 1884.
This enterprise, which has been
highly successful for more than
twenty five years, is a real exam
ple of the Penn State spirit. After
the debris of the war is cleaned
away in China, we should be glad
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TUESDAY; JANUARY 7, 1941
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY:
Meeting of the:-freshlman - - ice
hockey team in the Armory, 8:30
p.m.- •
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P.S.C.A. Forty P ; o - Altn- mee.t[hil,
Hugh Beaver R00m_304,.01d Main,
7 p.m.
Meeting of Camera: . .Club
Room 318, Old Main, 8 p.m.
Portfolio staff meets in 416, Old
Main, 7 p.m
Mr. Rector, sales engineer
Bakelite CorporatiOn, will speak:
on "Plasticst:. in Room 110, Home
Economics, 7:30 p.m:
P.S.C.A. Freshman Council Cab
inet meeting, Penn State in,China
Room, Old Main, 7 p.m. -
TOMORROW:
Mr. D. 0. Noel from' the Metals
Disintegrating Company will sPeak
before the student chapter of, the
American Society of Metals' in
Room 121, Mineral Industiles, - 7:30
p.m. Subject: "Powder Metal
lurgy."
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Ag Council meets in. Room 418, -
Old Main, 7:30
lota Sigma PI meetixik..iii:it j oOrn .-
318, Old Main ) ,7 p.ni:'
Max I)ercum will speak on *l
ing At the Horne Economics
settihl,y Room 110 , Home keo
nornies, 7 p.m.-. •
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Dr. Donald Super, 'professor
educational psychology " .ft'•
University, disytutes 'the ' thetoil
that everyone should havea
that Penn State supports:-an-:
stitution like Lingnan_ Univeffsity:
which will be an important force
in rebuilding China.
Arthur Lentz '43 •• •-
Clermont Powell '44 • •
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