;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-
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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<f sov
ereign nation. - .. The Cariadian
•Would' look’ at our “short steps
toward war”- and -say; “Defense
of the. Western Hemisphere?. No.
Age of blood and iron—the New
Steps in the directiori of the New
American Imperialism!”. -
Fred Lukoff-’43
•Collegian Writer
Upholds Soccermen
To The Editor:
In this column before the holi
days there appeared a letter from
John Walker ’43 who upheld the
joint award of the 1940. soccer
championship to Princeton and
Penn State. It occurred to me
that perhaps ' hjs statements
might make some impression -on
the minds of students unfamiliar
with the. situation,- so I decided
to present the other side of the
register.
First of all, Mr. Walker points
out that Princeton had a tough
er schedule. - Both teams, how
ever, played Penn and Army.
Whereas - the Penn State eleven
blanked both the Cadets and the
Quakers, Princeton was able to
win by only a one point margin
in each case. I can direct John
to a. letter from the University of
Pennsylvania, the _. Nittanymen’s
traditional- soccer rival, saying
that Penn State was-;- beyond a
doubt the toughest team they
played this year.
More Luck Than Skill
In addition to this, the Army
All-American, Captain Guckey
soh, remarked that the Cadet tilt
w.ith Princeton was decided more
by luck than by skill.
There are many other in
stances that .may be mentioned to
illustrate the superiority .of the
Lions. While covering the sport
for The Daily Collegian, I saw
the Nittanymen methodically
drub every team they met, but
not until the last contest of the
season, the Temple game, did I
realize what our soccermen could
do when they had to. I wonder
if Reader Walker saw ' that
match?
Handicapped by the loss of
their regular goalie, Bill Jeffrey’s
lads were, on the short end of a
2-0 score until a few seconds be-
METZGERS"
FOR
BOALSBURG
Lasi-MinuJe Sport
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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-restriction being that letters must
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' space restrictions.
fore the first half ended. In the
first minutes of the second 'per
iod, ; the few hundred spectators
■ realized that before their eyes
was being, enacted one of the
-most amazing exhibitions of soc
cer supremacy ever displayed.as
State won, 3-2..
I can cite many more examples
-to indicate that Penn State’s
•soccer team is-the true cham
pion, but- let me mention only
one.
Reader Walker “personally”
believes that, if possible, Penn
- State, and Princeton should play
for the title. So do we all, but
' with a team that consistently
serves, up a full platter of lame
excuses in refusing to accept of
fers for a playoff. What kind
of a champion is that?
In Penn State Spirit,
Bill McKnight ’42
Mr. Record Collector,
Here's A Suggestion
To The Editor:
It. is a well-known fact that a
greater percentage of Penn State
residents is collecting classical
records than ever before. I wish
to make a suggestion to you, Mr.
Record Collection—regardless of
whether you are a student, a fac
ulty- or an administration mem-
•beiv
, Undoubtedly your collection is *,! \ ,
well worthwhile, .You like.your
records; that’s why you bought ;
them. Sometimes,' however, it C"t'
happens that you don’t particu- U''- >*., ,
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.
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