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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
01.'it.li.lished 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian.
established 1904, and the Free Lance. established 1887.
• Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
.rregular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
College. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934,
nt the post-o__ce at. State College. Pa.. under the act of
March 3, 1879.
Editor Business Manager
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Adam Smysar Lawrence Driever '4l
Women's Editor—Vera L. Kemp '4l: Managing Editor
—Robert 11. Lane '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters
"41; News Editor—William . E. Fowler '4l; ,Feature Editor
--Edward J. K. MeLorie '4l: Assistant Managing Editor—
Bayard , Bloom '4l; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L.
XTefleran '4l: Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel
Advertising Manager—John H. Thomas '4l: Circulation
Manijer—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,
Alice DT. Murray '42. Pat Nagelberg '42, Stanley J. PoKemp
iner '42, Jeanne C. Stiles '42.
Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison '42, Paul
M. Got(Them '42. Janie:, E. McCaughey '42, Margaret L. Ern
/in ry '42, Virginia Ogden '42, Fay E. Rees '42.
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Friday Morning. January 17, 1941
Absentee Voting
The long process of getting absentee voting for
Pennsylvanians is underway again. Mr. Powers,
representative from Allegheny County, has asked
the Legislative Reference Bureau to draw up an
amendment to the state constitution to grant the
franchise to absentee voters.
Mr. Powers' amendment will have to pass the
Assembly and Senate this year, and again at the
1943 session. Weathering both, it will be sub
mitted to the electorate in 1943 and, if passed, will
become law—first effective in 1944.
The long pull was started once before but, after
being passed by both houses of the Legislature in
1937, it failed in the Senate in 1939 in its attempt
for re-passage. Thus the state is back to scratch.
The constitution of the state now pro - Vides ab
sentee voting only for soldiers. Others away on
Election Day lose their franchise, a penalty that
only five other states impose on their citizens—
Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, and
New Mexico.
Students must suffer with the rest. Most of
them can ill afford the time or money it takes to
go home to vote and thus thousands of them every
year, here and elsewhere, pass up the chance to
vote. For many it is their first chance. They come
of age only to be deprived of their francise by an
?intiquated system.
Borrowers Please Return
Next Monday afternoon we will pave the same
President of the United States that we will have
next Monday morning but he will be different on
Monday afternoon in that he will have become the
first third term president.
Mrs. Roosevelt has won considerable fame in
the recent picture sections by becoming the first
First Lady ever to have to dress for three inaugur
ations. This has superseded the inauguration it
self in national interest. We are getting used to
seeing Mr. Roosevelt inaugurated but no one gets
used to women's styles.
There are other sidelights to the inauguration
which are probably more interesting than the
President, Mr. Garner and Mr. Wallace to name
two.
Despite these interesting distractions, Mr. Roos
evelt remains the most important thing about the
inauguration. It is taken for granted that his new
term will bring no change in national policy, only
a continuation of the present New Deal.
One of the things Mr. Roosevelt has already
asked is blanket authority over defense amounting
to almost dictatorial powers. This was one of the
issues in the election. Many people felt such
power would have to be given whoever was presi
dent. Millions wanted them given to Mr. Willkie
rather than Mr. Roosevelt because they felt more
certain of getting them back from the fornier.
There were 27 millions, however, who wanted
them given to Mr. Roosevelt.
As these powers seem necessary, Mr. Roosevelt
will probably get them. Mr. Roosevelt did not
Pet a mandate in the last election. however. For
that reason we, the people, might send him the
SaMe kind of note - we would send the borrower of
our t'avor:t.,‘ book
is : ) 1-. , ). L.J.J.SsLE)L-i•
__C. Russell Eck
_Alice M. 'Murray '42
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Poetry Corner
This poem, by an anonymous author, was found
in an economics book by the head of that depart
ment.
LIFE'S KEYNOTE
Oh life is like a music scale,
It starts and ends on do;
The doctor strikes the keynote_first
And bids the dollars flow.
The keynote never changes once
Through all the passing years,
For one thing's sure to cheer our hearts,
And drive away our tears.
The doctor gets us once again
As we leave this world below,
But the undertaker doubles his—
'Tis paid but once you know.
About A Gal From Illinoise
There once was an ugly duckling from Illinoise
Whose makeup lacked everything but poise.
On arriving in State College to pursue knowledge
The s:to-1" ratio made her a hit with the boys!
A Nursery Rhyme
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Of truth—
How often I've seen you from afar.
Now, no one knows where you are
Cause the European censors have you
Under lock and bar!
A Coed's Lament
Dear Stomach:
You've been so kind to me
But lately you've changed.
Instead of keeping peace
You war and give me pains—
A Printer's Lament
• A printer's life is one of bliss
'Til he has to set stuff like this.
Especially the prose by this kid—
Not good, not bad, but putrid!
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
COLLEGIANA
Debate Will Be Feature
Of Hi!lel Service Tonight
A debate on the subject: "Re
solved, that Opportunity for Free
Speech Should be Denied Those
who Advocate Radical and Relig
ious Discrimination in the United
States," will be the feature of the
Hillel Foundation at 7:30 tonight.
The affirmative side will be
taken by Edythe B. Rickel '4l and
David R. Benjamin '4l. The neg
ative will be taken by Saul Beli-
Wye, graduate student, and Sam
uel G. Fredman '43.
Al The Movies
CATHAUM:
"Flight Command"
STATE:
"Maisie Was A Lady"
NITTANY:
"Always A Bride" •
. and a simple solution
When the Bell System. was still very-young, a prob
lem arose: How to assure—at lowest co" - st,—a depend
able supply of telephone apparatus
_of high quality
and uniform standard?
As the System grew and the telephone network
became more complex, this problem of supply grew
more difficult. But it was solved this - way.
Western Electric was given responsibility for manu
facturibg, purchasing and distributing the equipment
needed by the telephone companies. The concentration.
of these functions has resulted in keeping quality upand
costs down—to the benefit of every telephone user.
•
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FRIDAY, JANUARY -17, 1941
CAMPUS CALENDAR
Twenty-three students will pre
sen-t readings from literature in.
Rooth 121, Liberal-Arts, at 7:30
p.m.
Debate at HilleLroundition be
ginning at 7:30 p.m. Subject: "Re
solved, That Opportunity for Free
Speech Should Be Denied Those
Who Advocate Racial and Relig
ious Discrimination In the United
States."
Faculty of SohoOl of Agriculture
meets in Room •109, Agriculture,
at 4:10 p.m.
Senior Engineering lecture in.
Room 110, Electrical Engineering;
at 4:10 p.m. Ralph Hetzel Jr. will
speak on "The Graduate and Labor
Unionism."
Self-supporting fraternity men.::
at the University of California at
Los Angeles are about as numerous , -
as self-supporting non-fraternity -
men.
Highlights In. Penn
State Sports
ALL-AIIIERICANS
• WILLIAM DUNN 1906
• 808 HIGGINS 1919
• CHARLES WAY 1920
• GLENN KILLINGER 1921
• JOE BEDENK . 1923
• LEON GAJECKI 1940
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