PAGE TWO 'THE !DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" 1940. SUCC-.2.350C to the Penn State Collegian. established 1914. and the Free Lance, established 1.837. • Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the rat•ular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania 13t.at.. College, Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934, Kt the post-o_es at State College. Pa.. under the act of March 3, 1873. ' Editoc Business Manager Adam Sznysec '4l <ugg:t Lawrence Driever '4l Women's Editor—Vera L. Kemp '4l: Managing Editor —Robert ...H. Llne '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters '4l; News Editor,-William E. Fowler '4l: Feature EditOr .--Edward .1. K. MeLorie '4l ; Assistant Managing Editor— Baya7d Bloom .41 ; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. )s.efferan '4l; Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel Ativertisin.; Manager—John H. Thomas '4l : Circulation Xi:onager—Robert G. Robinson '4l: Senior Secretary—Ruth Goldstein '4L; Senior Secretary—Lie H. Lewis '4l. Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42. R. Helen Gordon '42, Ross B. Lehman '42. William J. McKnight '42. ?I.lice M. -Murray '42, Pat Nagelberg '42, Stanley J. PoKemP nec.'42, Jeanne C. Stiles '42. Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison '42. Paul Goldberg '42, Jame:• E. McCaughey '42, Margaret L. Em • 'Lucy '42. Virginia Ogden '42, Fay E. Rees '42. IROPAd3ONTO.O VON NATIONAL AOVERTIS.NO 3`. National Advertising Service., Ine.. Colles4 Publishers Represerilath 4'40 MAtitsoN Ave. Nevi YORK. CMICACO SOTMA • LOS ApiceLeG • SA4 Fr;ANCIiC4 brad late Counselor I:',7tAnial and Business Office Old Main Bldg. Phone 71.1. .Managing Editor This Issue George Sehenkein '4l Aasistant Managing Edit Or.. This Issue __ Don W. Davis '43 ).Mews' Editor This Issue _ Robert E. Schooley '43 Women's Editor This Issue _Vera L. Kemp '4l. resistant Women's Editor This Issue __ Edith L. Smith '43 Thursday Morning, January 16, 1941 Suggestion For School Councils If someone were to challenge the school coun cils, asking what they have done for their schools and why they deserve to be represented in-All- College .Cabinet, a few would have a hard time ansWering. This is not a challenge, but, given time, it may grow into one. What is offered here comes by way of suggestion. .It is a suggestion that Collegian thinks is worth heeding and one that certainly deserves full con- sideration Quite often students have, and voice, objections to the type Of teaching or to the kind of instruc tors they are getting. Just or unjust they should he heard by the professors and the administrators concerned. It is seldom that they are. Most stu dents will not report their complaints bedatise they are afraid their grade in the course will be af fected or are just plain afraid. Collegian is not sure it is desirable that students AhOuld report their complaints directly. It might inake the complaints subjective rather than objec tive. The ideal course seems to be the one adopted by the Agricultural Student Council, which is the oldest and the best of the seven councils. That council has set up a committte of three to receive all student complaints about the courses and instruction offered in the school. Without go ing to any other group, the committee takes all first complaints to the intsructor and tries to meet the problem. No one but the committee and the instructor is involved. Continued complaints about one instructor are taken by the committee to the dean of the school. who knew nothing at all about the first one. A solution to the problem is then left to him. The whole plan has the dean's sanction. This is enough to bring the problem to the front and to the attention of the right parties. At pres ent, not even that is done in the six other under graduate schools. With a university the size of this one and ad ininistrative red tape what it is, school deans and executives have a hard time knowing what their students are thinking. The councils can help them. At its meetitig on Tuesday, the Liberal Arts Council considered such a plan and will adopt it it Dean Stoddart gives his approval. On the basis of reasons now advanced and jUdging by recent incidents within the school it hardly seems Prob able that he will refuse. "We believe that even now, after all the scorn, after all the violence, after all the victories of the enemies of freedom, it (democracy) is stilt the greatest of human causes. We believe this because we believe that freedom is the one human cause dedicated to humanity. It is the one human cause which declares that humanity is not a means to an end but is itself an end. It is the one human cauFe which declares, and which proposes to dem onstrate. that human beings, left to themselves. freed of the authority of masters, whether of the mind or of the soul or of the body, are capable of creating, a good society and a humane life." Arch ibald MacLeish, poet and librarian of congress, urges foucef7ii i . Jfteration of faith in American de- j. r) C Russell Eck Downtoin-n office 119-121 South Frazier St Night Phone 4372 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111I11111111111111111111111M1111111111111111111111111111111111IM THE CAMPUSEER Comes The Blitzkreig The zero hour is at hand With grim determination written on their faces, young Americans are ready to march, The Armageddon of final week •is ilea' Brave young undergraduates will cross the snow-clad slopes to meet their fate before Old Main. Armed only with pen and pencil, they will resolutely face the mechanized might of . faculty mobilization. Much ink will be spilled in grue some combat. And alas—many an undergraduate will never come back. Assorted Claptrap Bill LaPorte—"best shoulders money can buy" . . . Les Lewis and Prof Gardner arguing over which way a refrigerator door opens ... Joe Drier —"never got in the column" . . . Ned Startzel— i'incognito" . . . Jack Piper—"l'll get a date with Maxine" . . . Evon Wilson smiling when you ask her if she sent back her sigma nu pin . . . Skee Dick in town last weekend. In Defense Of La Fenine . (The Campuseer, frequent publisher of material derogatory to coeds as a whole, hereby, redeems himself by printing a poem offered by a local Dottie.) It's a custom It seems One used a lot To say Penn State coeds Are not so hot. So we ask In return Hoping to cause furore When last Did the boys Look in a Mirror ... Without breaking it. —C.L Pinned Ibby Shields (acipi) by Jim Sheeley (deltaelii) Take A Bore We feel impelled to give a journalistic pat on the back to Lew Corbin and his seni6r gift com mittee. In an era when governments dispose of billions like cigarette money, it is refreshing to find someone having difficulty spending a measly $5,000. (ADVERTISEMENT) Down By the Old Mill Streim Too bad there isn't an old mill hard by the Duck Pond. It certainly would be a lot more romantic if the bruised fannies, skinned shins and fallen arches that are in epidemic locally as the result of the recent cold snap were suffered while skating on the Old Mill Stream. Girls, there's no remedy for bruised fannies, skinned shins and fallen arches other than to:- 1. Learn to skate better, 2. Stay out of hockey games with the big boys, 3. Do your setting up ex ercises regularly. There is, however, a. remedy and a preventative for the chapped hands that usually go with skat ing. You guessed it, McLanahan's Own Hand Cream, 3 ounce jar sbc. Yep, an application be fore and after skating and we'll guarantee that your hands will be as smooth and white as Zasu-- Well maybe. La The Peer Indian Back in the dim, dark days when we were in fOurth grade in Public School No. 544, Brooklyn we harbored a great craving for redskin peanuts. Maybe because our favorite pastime, then as now, was being an Indian in "Cowboys and Indians," or more likely because they were just the right size. to fit our favorite pea shooter. Anyway, when we took up the call of Horace Greely, we came west from Brooklyn, lost our love for the Dodgers, missed the boys around Browns ville and forgot the stench that lingers around Sheepshead Bay; Redskin . Peanuts passed on, be longing to the era that was Brooklyn. Today we're happy. We've re-discovered Red skin Peanuts at McLanahan's. Prepared the Olive- Kist way they're better than ever and cheaper too. a pound for only twenty cents. Advt. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Armchair Dreams Produce Results • it "‘ "k"' The fellow who does his think ing alone- in his armchair may be a more convincing orator than the cne who gets his ideas from the crowd on the street-corner, ac cording to studies made at the College. Groups of students were asked to write argumentative speeches immediately after periods of silent reflection and immediately after periods of open group discussion, and in the majority of cases the more effective speeches were- in duced by the silent periods. "Not only were the debates more effectively written after the writer had thought the ' subject through alone, but the writer's verbal output was greater alai'," said Joseph F. O'Brien, associate professor of public speaking at the College, "An examination of the compo sitions written after discussion seemed to reveal a weakening of ,arguinent and- increased inco herence," he said. "Reflection theines, on• the bitier, hand, ap peared to gain in clarity of or ganization and forcefulness of language." • Commenting on the fact that the themes were rated in approxi mately the same order by in structors who graded them and by a student "audience," Professor O'Brien said it apparently is pos sible by objective -analysis of a speech to forecast its effect on the intended audience. CATHAUMi "Flight Command" STATE NITTANY DEAR FELLOW-LUTHERAN For more than twenty-two years LUTHERAN BROTHERHOOD has been helping Lutherans in the Unit ed States and Canada plan their finances to provide protection for their loved ones and to set up sav ings accounts to take care of them selves when they get old. Because of the many different problems that face our Ltithetan people. we have many different forms of insurance . . . the Whole Life plan, the W. 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Because we sell to Lutherans only, (your own organi= zation) our Society offers a number Of advantages that you will like to hear .about. Very truly yours, • bitherail Brotherhood Life Insurance & Annuiti'es M The Movies "No, No Nanette" Escape" . --NOTICE== -- Lutheran Students LUTHERAN BROTHERHOOD (5% Dividends) (Legal Reserve) THURSDAY, JANUARY- 16, 1941 uuuun►►u►u►►i►iauu►u►►nnunmui►uu►►►►►►►uuuu► CAMPUS (AI DAR iiiiiilfullifillifilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliM TODAY: Grange meeting,• 403ECgd 7 p. m. Student governrfieraineeting o Room 305 Old Main,_7: 7 o;:gli.: Student Union dance, ArmOry. E. M. Wise, Staff Adviser, Re search Laboratory, International Nickel Co., will speak to..the,Min eral Industries Society .on.,!!Pre cious Metals and What.-Wg We : Learned From Them," ,Room 121 Mineral Industries, 7:30 p, m. Miss Catherine Doerr will speak to all Home Economics.studerits on "Clothing, . Merchandising,.: and Dress Design" in 10 Home:Eco nomics at 1 p. m. TOMORROW: Ski Club, Room 318 Old Main, 7 P.. m. . Special meeting of the. School of Agricultufe faculty, _fi.oprn 109 Agriculture, 4:10 p. m.• . ititulinulliffililiiiiiuutnuumumuntinuiniumiumm INFIRMARY CASES iluittiliiutiitniiittiiniiimulniiiiuiiutiituittdttuuumu . Twenty-six patients were the Infirmary, yesterday. , .„.. . . The following.are confined with the grippe: Kenneth . A. Burgess, David A. Solomon '44, Patricia L. Patton '4l, Robert J. Sperl '44,- Henry N. ,Carner '4l, Robert M: Kennedy, • Dora Colver '44. Robert E. Jones !41, Cyril J. Bellahanee :'44;- John E, Tessieri '43, Thomas S. McCarthy '43, John M. Wolf '42, J. Robert Finn '44, William M. Lewis '4l, James M. Krese '43, Marguerite Waddell '44, Richard _L. Fuchs '44, Donald Cooley, Leonard , A. Donatelli '44, Jay M. Gross '44,• John M. Graff '43, J. Scott Moffat '4l. Cases Other than grippe in : . clude: Louis J. Stadnik '42 ; Ger- - man measles; Belle: Guzinsky '4l, gastro enteritis; : Betty Sticcop '4l' and Jere F. Heisler "'44, • observa tion. IMIMMKNI DEAR FELLOW-LUTHERAN Do you occasionally take time out to consider the sacrifices Mother and Dad have made in twenty years to feed, clothe, shelter:— and educate their children? I know parents by the thousands who have postponed or completely wrecked their provi sions for old age because they pre ferred giving their children a good start in life to arranging for their own security. Death by accident or illness would rob parents of their so ns and daughters and their in vestments. Almost any loyal son with red blood in his veins will choose Life Insurance as the way to meet this HONOR OBLIGATION to his par ents. Yes; it adds to the outlay during the education period, but does a man who has a mortgage on his home hesitate to buy fire insurance - even though his chances, of . having n : fire are only one-Out of four . hundred? m Incidentally a young ail Who, be gins his purchases of .life ; invitrance early ,not only . -. secures . the ..more favorable rates but he establiihes himself as a good credit riSIE. - Have you ever wished for credits, The Lutheran Brotherhood. has Policies .designed.' especially; fit student?. poCketbooks and. ~needs. There are. war .no ar service re strictions on our POlieles• Pleage re quest information, about Tutkernn Brotherhood, before tuying-wouu-Life Insurance and Annitities. There is no obligation: • Very tnily; J. M. Lind-sey -250 Sou Burrowes Street, State College, Pennaythirlia . Telephone: 4374 W. It Hosteiman, 231 South Allen StreeiE State „college, Pernisidiaiiia Telephone: 2132
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