PAGE TWO THE GAILY COLLEGIAN "Tor A Better Penn State" )I.6,ablished 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian. establlsktr,vl 1901, and the Free Lance, established 1887. PUblished daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania qtatr, College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934. the past-o__ce at State College,' Pa., under the act of Xfarch 3, 1879. Editor Business Manager Adana Braver '4l '''Ci`P.4 7- v 4 .' Lawrence Driever '4l Women's Editor—Vera L. Kemp '4l ; .Managing Editor —Robert H. Lane '4l Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters '4l; News 'Editor—William E. Fowler '4l: Feature Editor --Edward S. K. McLorie '4l: Assistant Managing Editor— )3nyard Bloom '4l ; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. )3"efferan '4l ; Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel '4 L. Advectisin,r 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 Cordon '42. Ross B. Lehman '42. William J. McKnight '42. AlTee'M. Murray'42. Pat Nagelberg '42, Stanley .3. PoßemP ner. '42, Jeanne C. Stiles '42. Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison '42. Paul 3W Goldberg '42. Jatiies E. McCaughey '42, Margaret L. Em try' '42,' Virginia Ogden '42. Fay E: Rees '42. RePRIMENTIIO FOR NATIONAL ACIVERT/SINa National Advertising Service, rah•. Oillege Publishers Representative • 4d.9 NIAOISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.'IT C)adviate Counselor 7011orial and Business Office •313 Old Main Bldg. Phone 711 .Managint; 'Editor This Issue_ John A. Baer '42 hasistant Miinaging Editor This Issue Herbert .1. Zukausl.a, )lows Editor this Issue Woman'.: Editor This Issue -- Wednesday Morning. January 15, 1941 Short Steps Toward War Senator Nye, the professional peace man, made a good, statement last week. He exactly described our present situation when he said we are "taking short. steps toward war." We have been taking short steps toward. war at an ever increasing tempo since long before the war began. We have been taking them selfishly for our own benefit. We will continue to take them because most Americans 'are beginning to Believe that the price of peace will be higher than the price of war. Wars now are popularly undeclared. No one in the future is likely to know just which one of our short steps took us across the delicate line that divides peace and war. When historians balance the books some may set the date of our entry as September 1940. Others may place it at January G, 1941. Others may place it still later. Those who regard, only the sending of troops as an act of war may never find us in this war. We have been promised that nc American Expedition ary Force will go into Europe. As long as the Eng- : lish Channel separates the two fronts there seems minced for one. If. Germany refuses to fall of her own weight and, an invasion of the mainland becomes a pre requisite of Allied victory the situation may. change. From a, military standpoint American public in its present state of mind could probably be induced to send them. Senator Nye estimates that .there are already 35 senators who would vote for this kind of war. After the last War the American people decided they would never fight again for idealism. It is gbing to take purse selfishness to move, us now, we )fave agreed. The possibility of forestalling American inva sion is a good selfish reason. The possibility of breaking an attempted Ger man world domination is a good selfish reason. The desire to preserve our own democracy and self-determination is a good selfish reason. Now let's add the best one of them-all. Before we give Britain all-out material aid, let's strike a Yankee bargain. Let's guarantee that aid with some real security —more British possessions in this hemisphere. Iforsetcaders that we are, let's start the bargain ing with C3113.da That will be the best short step we have yet taken., EJlethons Dale Set It is to be hoped that as many other groups as possible will fall in with the action the All-Col lege Elections Committee took last night. By setting March 11, 12, and 13 for the All-Col lege Elections the committee made it possible for the successful candidates to have two months to understudy the positions they will assume in May. More than any other way now suggested, this seems capable of increasing the strength of the student government. It will• , help even more if other groups fall in line. In addition to the class officers, the . student, leaders now chosen early include the,Pan - hellenic Council officers, and the Penn State Club, officers. Steps are being made in the right direc4on. We can hope they will be continued. ___C. Russell Eck Downtpwn Office 119-121' Smith Frfizier St Night Phone 4972 _Robert W. C,N)per _Jeanne C. Stiles '42 fluimiiiimmilumuniummuniffimiumumniumnimimummillummil T A LEAN ' L g ~_\ ) AND HUNGRY 110 t _ --c't LOOK • l -4 .7.7••• .. lii-...-.- 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 The senior class gift committee has made the observation that it' is in something of a quandry over the expenditure .of the monies extracted over a period of years from the class of '4l. This is in dicative of almost anything. Perhaps the College needs naught else to increase its present approach to perfection. Or perhaps the committee has simply been unable to discover a suitable white elephant. At any rate, the situation is not with out interest; no transaction wherein five thousand iron men are juggled about is entirely dull so far as we're concerned. Frankly speaking, we have nothing to offer the committee. The campus is al ready theoretically adorned with a Lion Shrine (whereat, it is to be supposed, little groups of the devout will gather to chant and utter prayers), a Greek Theatre, and ,many other lovely and • mostly neglected items. Somewhere in the moun tains there is to be a cabin erected for winter sportsmen and ladies. And who has not heard of the munificence of the class of '22? Those noble and generous citizens donated funds for a swim ming pool. The college still uses the facilities offered by a local apartment building. The classes from '27 to '3O left funds for a skating pond, but the tennis courts continue to serve the purpose. Surely some worthy cause can be served by the class of '4l. Perhaps the tower of Old Main might ' be painted mauve, or the Krupp• gun before the armory plated with gold and studded with semi precious gems. Again, it might be best to wait, and follow the example of the classes of 'l6, 'l7, and 'lB. They built a memorial gate. The war, you know. Far be it from us to level the barbs of criticism at the agriculturists. The poets have sung them, from Vergil to Sandburg; their fame is as old as the world, and in all the lands their works:are sheivn. They are, as some one has rather aptly phrased it. nature's noblemen and guardians of the soil. Nor is if within our province to cavil at the great American educational system, grounded as it is upon the bulky foundations of sociology, psy chology, home economics, and manual training. When the agriculturists and educationalists inter mingle however, the results are, as Queen Pagi phae discovered after her unfortunate experience under somewhat different circumstances and in another time, a trifle confusing. For instance, if one is determined on the matter, one, can become a master of science in vegetable gardening. This is pretty heavy going. It points the way to even greater specialization; to vistas undreamed of by even the prophetic Maro. One day the youth of America will be able to undertake courses leading to, let us say, a degree of Bachelor of Science in Mushroom Culture. Then we shall have better mushrooms. They will have been grown under the benevolent wing of Science? The thought is a happy one. We read in the newspaper the other day that Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding of the R. A. F. made the statement that American-built airplanes Were proving quite satisfactory in foreign combat service. The Air Marshal went even further in his praise; he said that with a few added devices peculiar to the British air arm, the American planes could be brought nearly to the standard set by the English manufacturers. This is, we think, damned white of Sir Hugh. But don't you despair. Hughie old thing. Give us a couple more years, and then we too will be able to muff a war almost as well as you Britishers. With our antiquated . aircraft. And our inferior breeding. After all, one can hardly expect to achieve that awe-inspir ing English stupidity in a few hundred years. Having had our say concerning the English, may we close with a rather absurd idea. It occurs to us that an ambulance or a couple of tons of food sent across to the blighters would be quite as satis factory a balm to the class of '4l's conscience as any other thing their class funds might purchase. Eisen if we do hate the tickers-Armstrong crowd we still admire the guts of the common people. Cassius. , "War or peace does not change, by one jot or • one title, the boundaries of academic freedom. War lays upori the university no obligation to sur ;'render its essential functions of truth in teaching . and the enlargement of the borders of truth. Only: I • as those who teach feel: confident that they. can express the truth as their minds see,it, only as they have firm assurance that. in thtir. search for new . truths they will be unhampered, can either the., ...perpetuation. or the ekparisiimbf knowledge really 1; be effectiv.e.7. iiresident Henry M, Wriston of - Brown. University pledges maintenance of freedom • . • of thought and, Of teaching- regardless of world. _ . conditions. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Collegian Candidates (Continued from Page One) Smyser, Thomas Aberant, Jack J. Bard, Kenneth White, Morrison Arthur, Robert Redmount, Benja min aßiley, Donald Webb,•Robert Faloon. Women's business candidates— Suzanne M. Clouser, Natalie Day eson, Betty Friedman, Eleanor Friedman, Esther Mae Hartos, Louise , Henry, Virginia Lee Jack son, Grace Judge, Mary Lou Keith, Margaret Maginnis, and Adrienne Margaret K. Ramaley, Mary Roelofs, Helen Schmelz, Anne Serocca, Betty Lou Schaeffer, Ruth Shanes, Winifred E. Spahr, Joyce Strope, Shirley Tetley, Mary Lee Ullom, Nell Wartman, and Marian Whitcomb. Men business candidates—Mil ton Bergstein, George J. Cohen, Robert Dierken, Philip P. Mitzke 'itch, Edwin L. Partridge, Donald 'H. Shaner, Kenneth Sivitz, and Marlin Zimmerman. What would, you do if you were about to. be wedded a second time and your first husband decides to make, his appearance at the wed s 'ding? Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord is the woman in ques tion. Cary Grant 'is the first,hus band. "Philadelphia, Story" prom ises to be more than an hilarious film version of the New York stage hit. Complications arise when Cary, as Dexter Haven hires Mike Con ner a writer for a keyhole society publication to reform his ex-wife. Through Mike, played by James Stewart, Tracy learns it is better to be a human being than a god dess. PENN STATE CLASS RINGS BALFOUR BRANCH OFFICE At Charles' Fellow Shop 109 S. Allen St. Admission,ftee,Toilew 2nd.Semesfec Cejlegian i s,ultssritiers, CINEMANIA WASHINGTON'S ;IRTHDAY . _:..- : • 1 . .•'- - ": -- ' BALL • - •.'......;..":.- t:: Sponsored By The Daily. Collegial-4 Music Sy THE CAMPUS OWLS F Dancing 9,-12, • Informal B A sec 75c . coqpfe-7,* Included WEDNESDAY, JANUARY:I6:494I unnummiummimpqmiumquipiquinittulim CAMPUS -CALENDitit'.i---] 111111111111111p1111111111111111111111111111111111.1.11(11.1111111;1111111 TODAY First figure skating ..lessorrlon the tennis courts rink, 6:30 1e7:30 p. m. A fee of 50 cents wilt - be charged. American Chemical• Society meeting, Room 119 New Physics, 7:30 p. m. PStA Board . of Directors meet ing, Hugh Beaver R00m,.4 . :10 p.m, Freshman Independent _pa4, m Room 318 Old Main, 7p : . Varsity basketball, Penn State versus Syracuse, Rec Hall, 8 p.• m. PSCA—Freshman Council. Pro.; ject committee meeting, . Beaver Room, 4 p. m. Alpha Lambda Delta, Grange lounge, 6:30 p. m. Home Ec career lectures: "Teaching Homemaking," Room 110 Home Econorniee; HosPital Dietitian," 1 p. m.,•Rborn. 5 Home Economics; "The HOnie Economics Woman in BusineSs and. Commercial Food Work,":. - 1 p. m. Room 106 Home Econornica; "The . Textile Field and Research," 1 p. m. Room 112 Home ECononr ics; "Nursery §chool Tea Ching," 7 p. m., Nursery - School; "Sour halism and the Home Economiit," 7 p. in., Room 106 Home Econom ics. Ellen H. Richards Club, Room 224 Home Econothics, 6:45 p. m-. . Eugene H ! Le derer 'REAL ESTATE . 114 E. Beaver Ave. State College DIAL 4066
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