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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn. Stale"
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Colleztan,
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
regular College year by the students o£ The Pennsylvania
6tate College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1984,
at the post-o—ce at State College. Pa., under the act of
March 3. 1879.
Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr.
Adam Smyser *4l Lawrence Driever '4l
Editorial and Business Ofdce
313 Old Main Bldg.
Phone 711
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 J. K. McLorie *4l: Assistant Managing Editor —
Bayard Bloom *4l: Women's Managing Editor —Arita L.
Hefferan *4l: Women’s Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel
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Credit Manager—John H. Thomas '4l; Circulation
Manager—Robert G. Robinson *4l:' Senior Secretary—Ruth
<Joldstein ’4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie.H. Lewis *4l^
Junior Editorial Board —John A. Baer *42, R. Helen
Gordon *42. Ross B. Lehman *42. William J. McKnight *42,
Alice M. Murray *42. Pat Nagelberg *42, Stanley J. PoKerap
ner *42, Jeanne C. Stiles *42.
Junior Business Board —Thoma 3 W. Allison *42. Paul
M. Goldberg *42, James E. McCaughey *42. Margaret L. Em
bury *42. Virginia Ogden *42, Fay E. Ree 3 *42.
•Managinn’ Editor This Issue John A. Baer *42
News Editor This Issue Richard A. Baker *43
Assistant Managing Editor This Issue Gordon Coy *43
Women’s Issue Editor Alice M. Murray *42
Assistant Women’s Editor Thus Issue Ruth Gerber *43
Graduate Counselor
Wednesday Morning, February 5, 1941
Changing Opinion, Changing World
The change that has come over student opinion
as well as American opinion is reflected in a re
cent Student Opinion Survey which indicates that
67 per cent of America’s students favor the lease
lend bill which would give Britain all possible aid
short of war.
In October, 1939, this same survey found 58 per
cent of the students opposed to changing the neu
trality law so that ANY country at war could
BUY war supplies in the United States.
Already in October, 1939, other surveys show,
American opinion hoped Britain and France
would win. The attitude we are assuming now is
more severe. Some may not like the name but,
in truth, it is a war attitude.
More and more the American press is giving it
self over to pro-British news. We are seeing pic
tures like those of Willkie and Churchill which
are calculated to have a powerful influence.
What this means is that America has finally
chosen sides. We will probably; fight out the war
no matter what the cost, if the present trend in
opinion continues.
Trans-Oceanic Note
Note to the British:
Some of us over here are beginning to wonder if
you have an administrator. We see your Prime
Minister three or 33 times a day and he is always
walking through a bombed street, talking to an old
woman, talking to a Tommy, or shaking hands
with Harry Hopkins or Wendell Willkie.
Billy Soose And The Run-Around
The run-around that professional boding is giv
ing Billy Soose is the kind of thing that discredits
the game with the public and which boxing itself
should make every possible effort to do away
with.
It is the kind of thing that will some day bring
the public to demand government'—national, not
state—of these so-called “competitive” sports.
Consider 'if you will the present middleweight
situation. Two men claim the title. They are
unwilling to fight each other. Both have been
beaten by Soose and both ate unwilling to fight
him in a championship bout. Their reticence is
understandable, but boxing to be the kind of sport
the public can respect needs a federal commission
that can make a champion meet the most logical
contender, not the most beatable one.
Today, just as 25 years ago when Soose’s coach,
Leo Houck, was an uncrowned champion, there
are commissions and commissions and rules and
rules and rules and champions and champions and
champions.
Personally, we have seen enough. Let's have
some air.
“For a century or more industry has been draw
ing freely on the stores of scientific knowledge
built up over the ages by thousands of nameless
investigators and doing so without concern for its
exhaustion and without conscious obligation to
contribute to its maintenance or replacement. Of
late the margin between what we know and what
we use has grown alarmingly thin and while we
may expect many significant gains in basic
knowledge to come from industrial research
agencies and activities it still remains true as al
ways that our major reliance must be on the great
company of scholars in universities and primary
research agencies, to whom the advancement of
knowledge is not a means to an end but an end
in itself.” Dr. William E. Wickenden, president
of Case School .of Applied Science, reminds indus
try of its dependence upon educational institu-
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Bv the time this goes to press, most of you dear
good people will have undergone the ordeal by
fire and sword that passes for a registration
among the local educationalists. Gay times and
good fun for young and old alike in Recreation
Hall: bring your pen , and no matter what hap
pens don’t lose your temper.
Which brings up a rather interesting question.
Just exactly what does the statistical department
do with all their old statistics? Allowing that the
department .probably has a quite reasonable an
swer we should like, nonetheless, to offer what
we think is a very neat -suggestion. .With a little
cutting and shaping, it seems to us that ,the old
registration cards would, make simply dandy book
marks. Pass ’em out in class, or one with every
dean’s excuse, or something along that line. See
what’ we mean? .
We observe that the local Passport-To-Elysium
Club known to its intimates as the PSCA, has de
termined to throw a panel discussion concerning
the sociological implications of frosh customs.
With, no doubt, group singing and refreshments
for one and all. If nothing else, this would seem
tc prove that the halo boys are on their toes. Here
a commission, a forum, everywhere a panel dis
cussion. Hey down derry, and other cries of ap
proval. Nothing of import escapes them. They
are, as one Frenchman said of another in the dim
past, the very conscience of humanity, if only for
the moment. It is pleasant to have them about.
Regardless of what the question may be, they
have the answer to form a committee to Took into
the matter and report on it at the next annual
meeting of the board of directors. The woods are
full of earnest little bands of believers, each en-,
gaged in probing some imponderable .riddle.
Don West’s literary abortion has made yet an
other of its ill-timed appearances: Akin to the
bubonic plague, this recurring phenomenon is ap
parently beyond the control of man. Like those of
the poor chap who runs the humor page of a
house organ for the mortician trade, the afore
mentioned West’s efforts are well meaning, but
utterly futile.
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The wrath of gods will be on our heads for this,
because the lads who work out every day in quest
of varsity letters are going to be set a bad
example. The awful truth is that this week’s
issue of a magazine that brags it dares to tell the
truth contains a picture of an ex-Lion athletic
star, who has gotten on in the world, wearing ath
letic equipment which Mr. Leo Hoqck recognized
as belonging to Penn State.
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THE DAH Y COLLEGIAN
WITHDRAWALS
Ten students, withdrew, from
the College before the-end of last
semester, Registrar William S.
Hoffman has announced.
Listed among the withdrawals
were Margaret J. Chubb ’42,
Robert M. Diehl ’42 and eight
freshmen, Albert W. Feeney,
Fred L. Goodman, Lawrence Ha
macher, Xen S. Hosier, Albert
J. Hricik, George. R. Hunter,
Henry S. McDevitt, and Paul F.
Ryan.
The following reasons were
given for withdrawing: two be
cause of illness, two to go to bus
iness school, one because of poor
scholarship, one to enlist in the
Canadian Air Corps, two to go to
work, one because of lack of in
terest, and one because of poor
eyesight. . , '• v •
Collegiate Digest
Calls For Photos
Action! - Flash! Camera!
No, it’s not the familiar cry
of the newsreel movie -director:
Rather it's the .call ••to': every
camera bug on' the campus to
dig out his best' pictures of the
year and enter them in Collegiate
Digest’s fourth annual Salon Edi
tion competition.
This amateur photo contest is
conducted each year to select the
prize-winning photos to be fea
tured in the annual Salon Edition
—an edition that is a special
showing of the best work done
by collegiate photographers dur
ing- the year. Winners are re
warded with cash prizes, publica
tion of thier pictures, and par
ticipation in a traveling photo
salon that is exhibited at leading
college art centers throughout the
nation. A special $25 cash award
will go-to the person submitting
the outstanding print of the con
test.
This largest and most widely
known of all college camera con
tests is open, to both students and
faculty members.
the rules:
1. All material must be seat
not later than April 1 to: Salon
Editor, Collegiate Digest Section,
323 Fawkes Bldg, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
2. Send technical data about
each photo submitted. Give col
lege year or faculty standing of
the photographer. Information
about the subject of the photo
will be helpful. Any size picture
is acceptable, but photos larger
than 3x5 are preferred.
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Campus '44 party ..meeting,
Room 418 Old Main, 7 p.in.>.v;';s
Erosh boxing, Penn'
Syracuse, Rec Hall, 6 p.m'. '
Varsity boxing, Penn StateJvs,,;
Syracuse, Rec Hall, 7 p.m.
Varsity basketball,. Penn ;Sjtate;.
vs. West Virginia, Rec Hall; ,8;p»i
m. ';Ti:A
WSGA Senate meeting ;-/in
WSGA room in White Hajiv ; ;s;
Student Book Exchange,'Room;
A Old' Library, open from 9'.a'jinl;,
to 5 p.m. ' ;.:?V
Student Union dance, Armciry,''
4 p.m.' :*v'"
Graduate students, desiring'.th
take a course in, elemeritao 1 Ger
man preparatory to the' : PhiD,;
reading examination, should-Con
sult H. Wi Weigel. 225 Liberal
Arts, at'once. • '-- T K'‘K ! ;
• Coffee . Round Table; • hour,
Hiilel Foundation, 4 p.m.;' vv v
Regular rehearsal, Men’sr.Glee
club, Auditorium, 4 p.nr "
TOMORROW
Ag/ meeting,- Dr.,£jir*
inger’s home, 7:30 p.m. . . -
PSCA Forum, 3Q4 Old; Main.
"Panel ‘‘Should Final
Exams Be Abolished?” . -.y-M'
Omicron. Nu meeting, Room
117 Home Economics, 7:15 p.Jni' : v-
3. Enter your photo in- one
of the following divisions: ~(a)
still life; (b) scenes; (en action,
and candid photos; (d> portraits};
(e) “college life.” ■ ,
4. The outstanding photo sub*
mitted will receive a cash, prize
of $25. First place winners- ait
each division will receive cash
awards of $5. Second and third
place winners, $3 and $2. ,-•
•s'. There is no entry fee, and
each individual may submit as
many photos as he desires. Photos,
will be returned inadequate post
age accompanies entries, rr.y'-^
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