PAGE TWO TOE DAILY COLLEGIAN "Far A Better Penn State" Ebtiblishe.! 1340. Successor to the Penn State CoSJegaam, established L9OL and the Free Lance, established 1387. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during - the ►-OiTular yeir by the students of The Pennsylvania CiU-te College. Entered a* second-class matter July 5. 1934, »if. the post-M ._*:i at State College, Pa., under the act of March 3, 187'?. Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Adam Saiys-sc ”41 Lawrence Driever *4l KT7tori:i! and Scenes* •313 Old Mini 31-i*. , Phone 71L ruin iri'r E‘i:f«>r Tin:- ■N'.*ws friitor Ttii< L--U'* WTt’t; \V*>afvii:.or TJif> Issuo Wednesday Morning, February 12. 1941. Nr. Lincoln Speaks Wei 1 ! For A Man 132 Years Old Our observation of Lincoln’s I32nd birthday to day is in some measure a tribute to Henry Varnum Poor. It we stop to reflect, we must realize that Poor’s mural has for the first time made us really conscious of the Civil War president’s significance to land grant colleges. It is significant, too, that Lincoln signed the Morrill Land Grant Act in 1862, the year the North was getting the worst of the war. That might be a good lesson for us in 1941—that even war is not all-consuming. War may domi >,ipte thought but there is still opportunity to sow the seeds we will reap when the crisis has past and even during war there is life apart from it. Today, too, is a good day to re-read some of Lincoln’s words. When references to his immedi ate situation are eliminated from his address On the battlefield at Gettysburg, his ideas begin to seem as though they were written for 1941 and not 1863. “Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to tiie proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are. engaged in a greatwar . . . testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure . . . “It is for us the living to be dedicated here to che unfinished work which they who fought here have so far nobly advanced. It is for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us . , . that we highly resolve that these dead .shall not have died in . vain—that this nation, un der God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” Monopoly Nike It might be shocking for the ardent opponents of the Lend-Lease Bill who are claiming that H.R. l'?-76 will give the president dictatorial powers, to learn that America already has a dictator. His domain —the entire field of professional boxing. The capital of his domain—New York City. The fifth column by means of which he. operates—The Twentieth Century Sporting Club. The dictator —cigar-chewing Mike Jacobs. The latest victim of the slightly-tainted dealings of this fuehrer of-fistiana. has been Penn State’s Billy Soose. Because of Billy's sensational victories last summer over both claimants to the middleweight crown, Mike Jacobs couldn't afford not to recog nize the former Penn Stater. Billy hails from a small town near Pittsburgh, and anybody from that vicinity leaves a bad taste in Jacob’s mouth. During the past two years Billy Conn, Fritzie Zivic, and Sammy Angott, all Smokey City proteges, have carried world cham pionship crowns out of New York. In order to remove Soose from the fistic horizon Jacobs signed him for a fight with Tami Mauri ello, a Bronx Italian, who consequently, bore the Jacob’s seal of approval. Jacobs promised Soose a title shot at Overlin’s shaky crown, but this never materialized. In a semi-final bout the same evening that Billy gave Tami a boxing lesson, a pug from Newburg, N. Y. by the name of Ernie Vigh turned in an excellent exhibition which greatly pleased Jacobs. Monopoly Mike immediately matched Soose and Vigh. This time Billy encountered considerable more difficulty in winning, but he won, there was no doubt about that. Both judges and the referee, cast their ballots for'Soose. " Now the mighty solon of the art of fisticuffs has ycmatched Soose and Vigh. because he didn’t fe.el the crowd was in accord with the decision. Any way, Jacobs added, “Overlin won’t be in shape until. May.” The thought that Mike Jacobs has finally con sidered the feelings of the'boxing customers, would be like that of another dictator we know slopping to consider the sentiments of the Ameri can people, who are aDo paying to see a fight. Do tv nto w n Of 1 1 ce 119-121 South FrarJer St. Night Phone 4372 Stanley J. PoKempner *42 Dan \V. Davis, Jr., M ...A vita 1,. Heffevan Ml T.ouise M. Fu.tss M" i[iiiii(iiiiiiiii[iiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiimiiiiiiiiis k LEAN AND HUNGRY LOOK aiaiiiiiii!ii!iii!iiiiiiiiimiii!ii[iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii[i[iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiui!iiiiiiis Apparently everything's all right again. The panel discussion we mentioned last week came ol'l', as scheduled, and its was decided that freshmen customs were permissable. This is possibly the most reassuring news to come to our ears during the whole week. One of these days the question will arise: “What shall we "do with Old Main?” We have dreadful visions of a future panel discus sion,'with learned remarks by the sociologists, the economists, and a man from the nature education department. With, no doubt, resolutions to the effect that the building should be stuffed with al monds and preserved figs and given away as a door prize at the next Student Union dance. Any thing can happen. What surprises us is.the fact that the Utopians-haven't sent one of their hatchet men around, to see us. Bearing tracts. At the risk of offending several nice people, and making more than our usual quota of enemies, we should like to ask a question. Just exactly what the . Hell good is the Liberal Arts Council? It’s been in existence for very nearly a year now, dur ing which time a great deal has been discussed; not much more than a faculty-student get-together for the journalists has resulted. Frankly speaking, that’s not a shining example. Now that we’ve asked tile question, maybe we can go a little way in answering it. Practically every time the Liberal Artists find something they’d like to haye done, they submit a resolution to the Cabinet to that exfe.pt, and that’s where the whole thing ends. Dead. It might be a good thing if the political wallahs got together on this matter of what they want to accomplish. Otherwise the whole busi ness will degenerate into what most attempts at student government usually degenerate into i.e. how much do we get out of it, and when do we get our gold keys to hang on our watch chains? Mr. W. H. Auden, the celebrated British poet and man of letters, will anon reside amongst us. Happy Day. Generally speaking, the appearance of Mr. Auden on the local campus is an indication that the College of the Liberal Arts has begun to sit up and take notice. For the greater part of the time, the liberal arts moguls seem to sit about and weave a mist of confusion among themselves. Even Mr. Auden was not permitted to foregoe a state ot the absolute lack of cooperation which results whenever two or more persons attempt to get any thing done in these hallowed halls of learning . . . witness the mass meeting scheduled for the same evening as Mr. A’s initial lecture. Come to think of it, there may be something symbolic in the whole tiling. After all, unless we were vastly mis taken in our interpretation of brother Auden’s latest article in The Nation, it seems that both the student government and W. H. are working to ward the same ends. Britons never shall be slaves. ' CASSIUS. SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE -AT KALIN’S MEN’S SHOP ISO 5, Allen Sf. THE DAIf Y COLLEGIAN Schilling To Teach Here Dr. H. K. Schilling," above, former Dean of -Union College and demonstration lecturer, will serve as assistant prSfessor in physics at the' College this se mester. The latest addition to the faculty has attracted wide at tention with his inventions for demonstration apparatus in lec ture work, and will do all the lec turing for Physics 281, a general physics course. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii CAMPUS CALENDAR !iill|llllllllllllll|liiiiiii!ii!iijiiiiii;imiiiii;iii|iji;iiiiiiii TODAY: Compulsory Cwen meeting, Miss Stevenson’s apartment, Grange Dormitory, 5 p.m. ■ Varsity basketball, Penn State vs. Carnegie Tech, Rec Hall, 8 p. m. Student Union dance, Armory, 4 p. m. IMA Central Council, Room 305 Old Main, 7 p.m. Meeting of Book Exchange Committee, Room 318 Old Main, 8 p. m. ’43 Independent Party, Room 405 Old Main, 7 p. m. Campus ’44, Room 318 Old Main, 6:30 p. m. • Campus. Race Relations Corrw mittee meeting, Hugh Beaver Room, 7 p. m. Coffee roynd table hour at Hillel Foundation at 4 p. m. Debate Tomorrow On Lease-Lend The Lease-Lend Bill, the ob ject of much criticism at the Town Meeting of Youth called by the American Youth. Con gress in Washington last week end, will be discussed by Prof. Arthur H. Reede and Robert D. Baird ’42 in a'n open meeting in Room 418 Old Main, at 7:15 p. m. tomorrow. Over 5,500 delegates attended the sessions of the AYC Town Meeting. Attending the three day sessions from Penn State were Jack M. Lishan ’42, Stan ley J. PoKempner ’42, and Ed ward Schwartz ’4l. Heated opposition to the Lease-Lend Bill flared at the Congress. As explained by Jack McMichael,. Georgia divinity stu dent, chairman of the AYC, its program calls for defeat of the Lease-Lend Bill as a" means of keeping America out of \he im perialistic war, strengthening democracy at home through the adoption of the Anti-Poll Tax. Bill, protection, of civil rights, and employment for youth through passage of the American Youth Act.. ROT&Band Schedule ROTC bands will hold their rehearsals at a different time this semester. The new time for Engineers will he on ‘ Tuesdays at 4 m. and Thursday at-7 p. m. ' The Infantry will rehearse oh Wed nesdays at 7 p. m. and Thursday .at 4 ,p. m'. Yale College was originally lo- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1941 NiiiiiiiiiummiiitiiiiiiiiiiimiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimi Nibbling At The News Wiih ROBERT LANE iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiHiiiiiiiiHiiiiiinmia France's Judas The rgeent amnesty granted by former Premier of France, Pierre Laval, to the German Ambassa dor in Paris, Otto Abetz. should furnish posterity with unforget table proof of the adage, “Poli tics makes strange bed-l'ellows.” Immediately following the fall of France; Abetz sharply de nounced Laval. On Decemoer 14 Marshal .Petain ordered the ar rest ol' M. Laval for conspiracy against the government at Vichy, this action being largely induced by the blistering attacks of Abetz, • But Laval was:never held for trial. Shortly after the ex-pre- - mier’s arrest Abetz mysteriously appeared at Vichy, and when he departed for Paris, Laval was with him. . . ' Latest reports from Vichy tend to confirm that Laval is France’s Judas. His thirty pieces of silver coming in the form -of a demand for the portfolio of Minister of Interior in Petain’s Cabinet. Whether weary 84-year old Petain is forced to ac quiesce to this'.’demand is rel atively insignificant compared to the motive that is behind this modern coup d’etat. ■ As Minister of the Interior, Laval would have-charge of in ternal affairs, propaganda, and censorship. In addition, he would be in attendance at all Cabinet meetings of the Vichy Govern ment. Such inroads into what little secrecy remains in France, might easily decide her final fate. In French North Africa General Maxime Weygand; has 450,000 crack colonial troops, and Ad miral Francois- Darlan commands ■ 100 first-class ..warships.. Both' units still remain free from Nazi control and serve .'as a constant threat to A.xis domination of the- Mediterranean. The Nazi needle is attempting to inject a Judas into -the inner circle at Vichy, and ironically, a former Premier of France has contracted to do the job. At The Movies CATHAUM: “Land of Liberty” STATE: “Come Live With Me” NITTANY: “Kit Carson” Dlftpc Wanted and offered P. W. Phila. every, weekend. C Andy, 4102. Lv. phone number. R.W.—To Pbgh.—Lv. Fri. a. m. Call Sally Foster, 164 Ather ton. P.W. —3 for N. Y. and Boston. Leave Thurs. a.m- Call 4837.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers