;WEDNESE>AY,.-FEBRUARY 5, 1941 L-etters To The Editor Bring Student Problems To The Forefront Trading' Versus Soft-Hearted Idealism : To The Editor: . . . K.i'ln.’ypiir editorial “Short Steps XTmviard War” bn January 14 you ; stated the-real position of theiri i-'-teryentibnists in' "the' European ■ ; lffar: Discounting fancy: ideal- 1 ism -as ' & -sufficient reason for r.; fighting, this war, you admit that <;;p.urp-. selfishness • can •be the only ; force .. sufficient to induce" the j! America*-- people to put forth' all ' ■effort to insure a ; victory against" - .Germany. You list certain “self i:;ish”.- reasons Why you think war i would be,'in thelohg’ruri, a less affair t&art : ’peacev All' i -those reasons you give—prevent ing American invasion; stopping ■ German world .domination, pre serving our democracy—are rea ; : sons'.-with- which no man can 'quarrel.- And' precisely because they are unimpeachable reasons, . reasons 'which' are generaliza ' rhetorical utterances, and ■ stereotyped phrases which mean all things to all-men they belie ' your own self-assertive sense of - ‘‘Yankee’ hard-headedness. In “an" effort to' retrieve your self pride,^you: hurry to point, out " concrete action- which would be "indicative of’, hard-headed bar : gaining rather than soft-hearted idealism.- • •’ Make' England Pay Defend England, you say, but rhalfe her" pay for it. And how is’England to pay'for it? Horse trading, you call it. We’ll de fend?- England,- and England will pay us .with- her Caribbean- arid South American possessions and interests.' ’ It is understood, of course, that we need the control "over the vital spots in the West ■ern Hemisphere. Our defense program'ls calculated .as hemi r sphere; total 'defense. If Brazil ,Ot..Argentina:_haye. not asked us iO help them, think nothing of it. We’ll defend them anyway.-They just; don’t realise they, need to be defended. Did the Sudetans, among others, argue'with Hitler when he told them they needed to even if they didn’t care to be? v Here; ;is clearly ■ demonstrated the real; underlying force which is- driving us into the fire and blood. South America is a vast new continent, her resources -barely-tapped,- her people a hifge new-market. • With our army and ifiSXX at vital spots who Would dispute our right to the spoils? With cheap labor, abund ant resources and. great markets, profits would-leap past the moon. And if' our smaller neighbors would rather not -be exploited? If they strove fqrjinconvenient independence—wef: have ’ our de fense program, hemisphere total defense. Economic Depression The horsetraders of America are presenting the American peo- “YOU CAN GET IT AT REAL ITALIAN ii-jr. SPAGHETTI SERVED AT ALL TIMES AT THE CROSSROADS Beet Will Not Be Served To Any Patty Of Which A Minor Is A s _ » , . ..... . pie with a gift. The American people, unfortunately, are riot all of them horsetraders. So • they don’t look the gift horse in the -mouth. Desperate for a release frpm a- decade of economic de pression and social disease, they grasp eagerlysthe preferred gift. Were a Canadian to read your editorial, he would have been hard put to .reball the tradifional Ameficari-Cariadiari.. friendship. “Let’s start with' Canada” . you say when looking over the'pos sible. payments. England -could make. As ‘though’ Canada were a • British possession.- As though Canada were not a free an*., , larly care about a record of' ... yours any more;- or- maybe you want' some other record really badly and cannot afford the hard cash just now to buy it. The suggestion is to organize a non profit. record exchange service ' for your benefit. ' Outline of Plan > „ Here is the way such a plan would work out. During two or three.fixed periods a week you will find members of this ex change service in a designated room on the campus. You may either bring your records-to-be exchanged there in person, or if none of .those periods suits you, you' can just drop us a postcard with the exact description, of the record you want to trade in, the record you want in exchange, ; your name, - address, and tele-1 '■ phone number. We will then in- i vestigate about the desired rec- | ord, and as soon as we get a hold >; of it, you will be notified. All records must be in perfect con dition. The exchange will not become a buyer or seller of sec- ii onhand records; it will merely j complete exchange deals. Its; character thus will be- similar to ■ that' of the student book ex- v change. There will be a service ' charge of 15 cents per exchange; ■ . C aID-P' aS r Advanced Opera Course f \ Bigwgum. plent T ° Offered This Term .. r j An advanced non-credit opei a * >. Y.M dyu alter course will be given this-semester I every. ‘'butt session - m addition to the preliminary t , \ occasions-" c^eV jing n eip course on which a poll is now' ; , Avi-rinGT Oi^ 1 ’ _ , ■u-ArrVlten being taken at Student Union. . \ class, dunng Helps . The advanced course will con-' » sweeten your ts sD Irtue sist of discussion and playing of. i too. A* 1 * 1 U . rTIkIT r=UM some of the most important i yO\Xt SUTU i . T)OUBT-BMl™ 1 operas and will presume a fun-< - i caU enioy , anes today damental knowledge of the field. | i you. se -yeial paCKay The course will. meet by ap- . . * 1 daily pomtment with the first class ini / ■ .}i - A Room 417 Old Main at 4:10 p.m. f” v * . \ tomorrow. Students who can not) " |' 5 * Vv -—<— , ' * V - attend at-that .time should callfcS. - H. C. Musser, 20$0. ' In order to bring this exchange to existence, we.must know just what the extent of interest is. It’s for your benefit, so please take a post-card or a piece of paper and write down your im mediate reaction to this sugges tion. Do you think it is a good idea? Would you use it your self? About how many records would you trade in? What sug gestion - do you have for im provements of this plan? Please mail or .leave all correspondence, addressed to Andy Szekely, .% Student Union, Old Main. Thank you, dear Reader, for your kind cooperation. Hope to see you at the Exchange soon! . Very sincerly yours, Andy Szekely. Proud Roofer Delights As Lions Lick NYU To the Editor: • I had the pleasure of seeing our boys lay . it on NYU’s highly vaunted basketeers —and it added ten years to my life. An unex pected extension of my leave from the Coast Guard Depot at Baltimore allowed me to'stay in New York for the game—and it was a thrill of a lifetime. The purpose of this letter is to tell you how very proud of our club every Penn Stater should be. Let me give you the picture. They played an NYU team before 2,000 very hostile rooters in a gym' which has seen NYU lose only three times in the last eight years. Before the game, anyone could have gotten $l3 for $5, or a nine point spot—if he wanted to bet on -State. Phenomenal Shooting Get this straight, our boys played the strongest team in New win. The average college team Kelt's the tetteshM treat vo« vealW 8° foI "' delicious ooubuhW ®» w York and they weren't lucky to makes 22. per cent of its shots from the floor. Our boys sank 13 out of 39 for a 46 per cent aver age—and is that a phenomenal exhibition of shooting? On fouls, the fellows made 11 out of 13. This, despite some very poor sportsmanship on the part of the -Violet fans who tried to rattle the boys by yelling and hooting. I am glad to be able to remember that I never saw that happen at Rec Hall. As to- the -defense—well* this is the tip-off on how badly our zone bothered the Violets. Then scoring ace, Ralph Kaplowitz, who had averaged 14 points a game in the five previous ones, not' only didn’t score at all, but he didn't get a single shot off in the entire first half. Picking out individual stars would be fbolish. -It was a team victory. That, I believe, is as it should be. Last night’s victory is a tribute to the team, to Coach John Lawther, and a credit to Penn State. As I said before: it’s a team to be proud of. I certainly am. I regret that all the students couldn't see the game—it was a lulu. Give my regards to the forest- Yours for a bigger and better Penn State—alwSys, —Leslie Navran ’42 Oblivion Only Haven For Spitting Stinker To the Ediotr: I nominate for oblivion the stinker who spit in an Old Main drinking founatin this week. Nothing more needs to be said among decent people. - + - - s „ VMV*"***'** ■■■ PAGE THREE! Outraged