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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
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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.
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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
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_Jeanne C. Stiles '42
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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:
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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
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of thought and, Of teaching- regardless of world.
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conditions.
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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.
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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
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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-.
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Eugene H ! Le derer
'REAL ESTATE .
114 E. Beaver Ave.
State College DIAL 4066