PAGE TWO THE DAILY OOLLEDIAH "Fir A Better Perm State" ELtibbVhei 1240. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, establish'd ar.i t<he Free Lance, -established 1387. Publish*-*! daily except Sunday and Monday during: the regular College year by • the students of The Pennsylvania, finite Collet?'.'. Sintered as second-class matter July 5, 19^4, ah the poit-o c-* at State College, Pa., under the act of Karch 3. 1379. Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr, Adam Smysar '4l Lawrence Drievar '4l Editorial and 3us:r.ess Ofn ■313 Old Main Bid.?. Phone 7LL . Women’s Editor—Vera L. Kemp ML: Managing Editor —Robert H. Lane '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters •41; News Editor—William E. Fowler '4L: Feature Editor —Edward J. K. McLorie '4l; Assistant Managing Editor— D.iyard Bloom *4l; Women's Managing Editor —Arita L. I-Ceffcran '4l; Women’s Feature Editor—Edythe 3. Rickel Ml. Credit Manager—John EC. Thomas ML: Circulation Manager—Robert G. Robinson Ml: Senior Secretary—Ruth •Goldstein Ml; Senior Secretary—Leslie K. Lewis Ml. Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42. R. Helen Cordon' M 2. Ross 3‘. Lehman *42. William J. McECnight M 2; Alice M. Murray *42. Pat Nagelberg *42/ Stanley J. PoKomp-. tier M 2. Jeanne C. Stiles *42. Junior Board —Thomas W. Allison M 2. Paul Goldberg M 2, James ,E. McCaughey M 2. Margaret L. Em bury M 2. Virginia Ogden *42. Fay E* Rees *42. Minnntfinp: Editor This Issue _ News Editor This Issue Women's Issue Editor Assistant Women’s Editor This Issue Graduate Counselor Friday Morning, February 14, 1941 Moving Info Open'Season; Will The Goose Lay Its .-Golden Egg, ? The great game o£ politics has come back for its annual appearance on the Penri State campus, and with All-College elections only one month away, clique politicians have begun looking for sure-fire candidates to sweep their party into powetv In this month of pre-election bustle and cam paign activity, however, the fight is won and lost (most clique chairmen think), not by the slate which will be carefully handpicked, but by the efficiency of their party machine. .Experienced campus politicians „will - admit that their victory depends upon the organization of the party and the methods by which they swing the voters to rubber stamp their slate. But, here’s where thk underhanded boondoogling rears, its ugly head and loyal party followers and candidates cough up the golden egg. In the heat of pre-election soap-boxing, political ethics sometimes are thrown out of the window. Although only Sib is allotted by the All-College Elections Committee for single party expenditures and heavy penalties are supposedly inflicted upon individuals or parties spending more than this amount, every class group, without question, spent more than this sum last year. Yet, each party submitted an itemized expense account of less than $lO to the committee. One clique later .admitted that it unofficially spent more than $lOO, personal and otherwise. How did the parties get away with this? Sim ple! An obliging uncLe from Kalamazoo printed grosses of blotters for his political-minded nephew. Or, thousands of lapel buttons with “Win With Smith” were listed in the budget as a tew hundred. The elections committee had no means of counting them. Still more clever was the ingenuity displayed by politicians who received bills from merchants for $5, then had the remainder of expense ac count sent to them during the summer. Other in fractions of the election code included the tearing down of opposition posters, commandeering of student votes by proxy; or planned visits to fra ternities or other clubs by candidates before offi cial campaigning had begun. Did the parties profit by these practices? Sadly enough, the golden egg refused to hatch: All this v/aste of money by individual electioneers has been acknowledged by experience-wise veterans who: say. that these practices were initiated in or der to “keep up with the Joneses.” Because one party strategist thought up a brilliant idea to gar ner votes; the other retaliated. The simple" solution for- a successful sweep of offices, quote these'welbversed gentlemen of poli tics, is to organize a smooth, hard-working ma chine which will contact and'sell their candidates to fellow classmates. The Daily Collegian seconds this thought. ■ No party can limp into office with a big nocketbook and a weak backbone. A bit of honest sweat- and footwork by an industrious group of party men will. win. an election faster than a-glittering buggy without a horse to pull it. In a move to eliminate the pre-election craze of fast spending and little planning, the All-College .Elections Committee called in the respective-party chairmen recently and laid down the law. Ex pense budget:- will be examined and checked more carefully titan ever and illegal electioneering will be judged severely. Now, the question is,, jvdl the campus political - leaders remember the friendly warning of their advisers during the heat of battle or .will the goose, again lay its 1 golden egg? We hope not! Do w ntown Oftice 119-12 L South Frazier St. Night Phone 4372 Stanley J. PoKempuer ’42 Robert E. Schooley *4:i .Altoe M. Murray ’42 Jeanne E. Ruess ’43 .Louis H. Bell Graduates Plan formal Lives Despite Jots Uncertainties Caused By War By Student Opinion Surveys “What does the future hold for me?" That is one question that many a college youth, faced with an upset world, is asking himself today. Is the collegian giving thought to the time when he leaves the campus—how- soon would he like to be married, what is his life work to be? Because of the uncertainty brought by the war, these are questions of importance .especially to those young on the threshold of adult life. To dis cover what students of the-nation--are thinking about their future. Student Opinion- Surveys of America has held interviews over a cross-section of colleges and universities:. The'resu'its: 1. Nearly two-thirds of the men and women now in college hope to be married within three years after they leavescfiool. 2. Many college women—about'' four out of every 10—want to teach, at least for a short while. 3. Almost half of the men are planning *to do engineering work, to teach, or to go into private business. ' ... Comparatively little pessimism was manifest upon the campuses over, the country. Practically all students are proceeding wfth their preparations for a ndrmal life: But this is not to say that col legians are not aware of the changes going on about them. Other surveys have pointed out that students are keenly interested in the European troubles, and in keeping this nation out of them. National defense, however, has had its effect. Sonle 3 per cent of the men say that they want to go into aviation: Projected against enrollment figures, that would mean that colleges today con tain some 20,000 air-minded young people. Other of the most popular professions among men are: journalism, law,-medicine, ehemisthy, ac countancy, and salesmanship. Among women, selected as the 10 top choices were: marriage, teaching; journalism, secretarial work,. nursing, social service, drama, fashion designing,-business and- dietetics. : . . When college students expect to be married Within one year Between 1 and 2 years Between • 2 and 3 years- Between 3 and 4 years Between 4 and 5 years More than 5 years Don’t expect to marry Already married Before leaving college Found' at last!, A place where parking meters receive harder knocks than in State College dur ing 'a student pajama parade. In Salt Lake City. Utah, the traffic commission has reported during 1940, 443 meters, one-fourth of the total number, were temporarily put out of commission has re ported during 1940, 443 meters, one-fourth of the total number, were temporarily put out of com mission. . ' ; - 1 he' Dance... IT’S - _ The Corner I unusual , THE DAIf Y COLLEGIAN Percentage 22% .. .„. .21% '.. 7% .. 3% .. 1% .. 1% CAMPUS CALENDAR?, J TODAY PSCA World Reconstruction Seminar Committee meeting, Hugh Beaver Room, Bp. m. • Hillel 7:30 p. m Foundation WRA Valentine Dance, White Hall. 9 d. m. Fees payable in Armory, 9 a. m. to 5 o. m, Sound movies on “The Tele phone Today,” Mineral Indus tries Society at 7:30 p. m. Offi cers will be elected. Senior enginering lecture, Ma jor William H. Gravell on “Ethi cal Standards in • Engineering Practice," Room 110 Electrical Engineering, 4:10 p. m. Valentine Party, Wesley Foun dation. 8 p. m. Open meeting of the Fellow ship of Reconciliation at : 423 South Pugh street, 7 p. m. TOMORROW: Varsity swimming, Penn State versus Pitt, Glennlanti. Pool, 2 p. m. ' Varsity gymnastics, Penn State vs. Chicago. Rec Hall, 3 p. m. Drvdock, Sandwich Shop,: 9 p Executive committee meeting All-College Cabinet war relief drive, Room 305 Old'Main, 11 a. m. ' <. •. , Hetiel Praises Students (Continued from Page- One) “student organization is growing in scope and effectiveness. Stu dents apparently don’t like to have conditions which- constitute abuses of ■ privilege, even when these abuses are by their own number.”'He cited in-this con nection the establishment .by- the students of a Student ■ Traffic’ Board to handle their- own- vio lations. . “Nothing else comes so- close to fulfilling the obligation for preparing students for-citizenship in democracy as.does -this-grow ing reliance on themselves,” the president said. ‘This ■ has the characteristics of true education that we don’t always get in the classroom.”- Infirmary Cases A checkup last night revealed that the following 10 students are confined'in the College' In firmary: Robert M. Johnson - ’44, cellu litis; Henry W. Flora '4l, Eloner Cloud ’43, Harold H-. Milliken ’4l, George M. Kessler ’42, Ro bert H. Leech ’42,’ Byrne Pi Cole man ’43, grippe; Angel E. Sanz ’44, Violet M; Ellis ’42, Martha M. Rissinger ’42, bronchitis. Cameron Bradley of Southboro, Mass., a recent Harvard gradu ate and vice-president of the Veteran Motor Car Club of Am erica, spends his spare 'time col lecting old automobiles. He has 16- pre-1910’ models. If life Movies CATHAUM:. “High Sierra.” STATE: “Buck Privates:” NITTANY: “Hudson’s Bay.” •FRIDAY, FEBRUARY :14,. 1941 Alter War, What! ■(Continued ■ from Page Onei There’s going .to be plenty oil cleaning- up to do in big places and-'small. ; So I think, if I were an all-i around young man in college, I’d like to be getting ready to get in on that. For two reasons—l I’d be ambitious to get into big league activities, and I’d see that as a way to get myself a good job and a sizable salary. : services, So what would I do in college? First of all, I’d prepare myself weir to hold a good job in some recognized profession or occupa tion, because in most cases one • must first get a measure of prom ■■inence in his chosen bread-and butter work before people will think favorably of him in con-- . nection with larger activities and responsibilities. But also, I’d use the- rich opportunities, around a college campus to school myself in the fundamentals of things—i of the way people" can govern themselves well, of what make? economics work prosperously, of the sociological conditions necesl sary to individual and group .well-being, of ethics and of re ligion, too. laterally we’re going back to fundamentals in reform ing a war-wrecked world. When a football- team starts going bad in mid-season, the ex perienced coach goes back to fundamentals—that 'ls, he drill? his team hard again in tackling* blocking, simple play formations, and such. That’s what’s going to be happening- in world, nation, state, city and town before long, and the- young- man who knows his fundamentals is going to be wanted and. chosen. And- in 1 hunting out these fun damentals—finding them down underneath all- sorts of wrecked superstructure—l’d .assume a hard-boiled; non-partisan atti tude;'that is, I’d try-to be as un emotional and unprejudiced as a doctor must be - when he honestly tries to firid out what is wrong with an ailing- patient and what remedies to_ apply. After one has got his feet firmly planted on. fundamental facts and principles on which all sound thinkers must stand, then'hfe“can afford to begin to be partisan—but not before that. i This is not to say- that I think young students' now in college, should- abandon- ordinary campus activities' and delights and be come grinds and' recluses. Quite the contrary. All-around men are going to' get' the' practical jobs— but, in' my opinion; they’re going to get better jobs and go farther after they get started if they’ve used some' of their leisure hours in the' college week to find out somewhat more about funda mentals in the broad areas of hu man relationships than bankers, merchants, engineers, chemists, farmers, lawyers, doctors and ■such folk ordinarily know. It’ll' take' woilif and discipline, but it’ll pay good dividends, and I- wish I were young enough to have a charice at it. A. R'. Warnock, Dean of Men
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