PAGE TWO TIME DAILY COLLEGIA* "For A Better Penn State" Publish**-! daily except Sunday and Monday during the Oi.fcaMLshed 1004, and'the Free Lance, established 1887 .Jtt.l/tblished 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, xv.ol.ir College year .by the students of The Pennsylvania S'frt'/i College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 ni iiie por.t->££v:e at State College. Pa., under the act of tffnrh 8. 1879. Editor tr Bus. and Adv. Mgr. h (turn Smyset "41 Lawrence Dxiever '4l anhj: fared badly. The original suggestions were placed, before the seniors on a hit-and-miss Stu dent Union poll. Under this plan it was difficult or impossible to give every senior all the informa tion he needed to vote intelligently. The Lion Shrine emerged. This year, it was decided to rest the elimination With a committee chosen by the'senior class presi dent. It was small enough that it could thorough ly study, whatever proposals were made. Waturally, there will be some disagreements with the suggestions made by the committee but Ijiitil some better plan is proposed this seems like (Jk* fairest way to arrive at an intelligent decision. The class now is left with a choice between two practical gifts I© Yesterday's Readers Collegian believes it is possible to reconcile these two ideas. (1) America should do every thing possible to help Britain; and !2> the demo cratic cause will be helped by a clear statement of the exact peace terms we hope to establish. To those to whom this was not clear it: yesterday's Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Night Phone 4372 Managing Editor ..Louis K. Beil uiiiiiuiiiiimiiuimmiimmuiiimiiuiiiiimimiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiimimumimumi a A LEAN t jVv St AND HUNGRY LOOK (The opinions expressed in this, column do not necessarily re flect the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.) • II!U!!ll((llllllllll!lll!II!IIlIfllUII!{|ll(l!ll!IHIIIISltlIIIIUlll|(!lillIiIIIIimi1IUi(||liUKU Possibly the most remarkable thing we’ve run across during the past week is the fact that, in the minds of the .campus weather seers, almost any thing can happen in the heavens that hang in shimmering majesty over the Mineral Industries Building. The rain and snow boys have special forms which they fill out and post for the edifica tion of the citizenry concerning the probable state of the weather. This form is .not, however, the us ual run-of-the-mill type of form. No, indeed. Along with prevailing winds, mean temperature and the rest, there is a special section devoted to'special events. There you have it. Those words, “spe cial events,” can mean almost anything. One'has horrid visions of special events occurring in the upper air. There is a gnawing fear in our breast that one day Mr. Helmut Landsberg will be found screaming and with glazed eyes, having run across something a little too big for the ken of man. ' We' had better be pretty careful how we go around horning in on the heavens. Mene, mene, tekel . . . or something- along that general line. We knew a man who got struck by lightning one time. One of these fine days we are going to' bind the temples with fillets of purest wooi, find some quiet wood near Athens and write a modern poem to. end all modern poems. Or then again, we may write a stream-of-consciousness novel which we will call, depending on how we feel after the or deal is over, by. a title which will make absolutely no sense tp any one. When we have done this, cur life will be complete; It would appear that the prime criterion of modern writing (which is a term that has come to mean anything from Ger trude Stein to Kholer (of Kholer’s latest catalog) is incoherence. And at the risk of seeming awfully dull and just too stupid, we’re getting damn’ tired of .the whole business. Another thing we don’t particularly admire is the fine art of imitation. When one person has treated a theme .which is peculiarly his own, it seems a bit lacking when another uses precisely the same theme in an ob vious effort to produce the same effect. All of which ranting means nothing unless we go further and state that, in our very own opinion, Miss Jean Craighead's nobly-intended magazine has laboured mightily and borne a stinker in the shape of its latest issue. A modicum on the arty side, too. The problem of keeping a collegiate literary magazine within the bounds is one apparently which is in soluble. The spirit of youth, you know . . . strong and utterly free . . . and contributed. Perhaps all this freedom, this passionate and slightly feverish gaiety, is fun for the boys and girls. But does it make for good writing? MR. AUDEN Will Autograph His Books For The College Book Store On This Island Poems On The Frontier Journey To A War The Ascent of F 6 We Also Have Records of Mr. Auden Reading Several of His Poems. The: College Book Store 129 W. BEAVER AVE. Books Records THE DAILY COLLEGIAN —CASSIUS Letters to the Editor — Chairman Grateful For Help On Projects To the Editor: Now that the examination file and the Student Book Exchange have fulfilled their purposes for the time being, they will natur ally fade from the minds of the students until needed again. I can’t let this opportunity slip by without giving credit to those people who helped make both projects'a ,success. ' The 1,500 students who used the examination file owe their appreciation to the' kindness of Mr. Lewis, College librarian, who allowed the file to be placed in the Library; to Miss Frear and Miss Ulrich, reference librarians, and all of their assistants, who so capably handled the filing and charging of the exams; and fin ally to the many professors who cooperated by sending copies of their examinations to the Li brary. The 1,000 students who saved money by buying and selling their books through the exchange should thank Mr. Watkins, sched uling officer, for allowing the committee the use.of their room; Mr. Ebert, superintendent of grounds and buildings, for hav ing the chairs moved out and, tables put into the room so that the exchange could be conducted more efficiently; Mr. Donovan, Student Union manager, for lend ing the committee a cash box and for allowing the cash to be kept at Student Union in the evenings; and Mr. Hoffer of the First National Bank for cashing the exchange checks and sup plying change free of charge. All of the people mentioned deserve credit for assisting a few students to aid many students. Both of these projects are worth while, and I sincerely hope that the Independent political party, which sponsored them, will see fit to continue helping the stu- ’ dents through the medium of the examination file and the Stu dent Book Exchange. David Finkle, '4l ANNOUNCEMENT! Effective Midnight, February 19 GREYHOUND LINES JOHNSTON BUS CO. Depot In State College Will Be Moved To The Mobilgas Station On North Atherton Street, Oppo site The V. F. W. Home, WEDNESDAY, FJgBRU[AIIY CAMPUS CALENDAR Illustrated lecture by Dr. A, O. Gettler, internationally known -• crime detection expert, on.“ Mi- >:,t ro-chemical Methods in Toxico- ?, ... logy” in 119 New. Physics at 7.:30 . ‘ p.m. f- Prof. J. Burne Helme will, speak on the current art, exhibit; in 303 Main" Engineering at-7:30; p.m. . ~ r _ ’ ■' ’44 Independents meet in 31?' Old Main at 7 p.m. •. Varsity basketball,'Penn State; vs. Georgetown, -Rec Hall at 3 p.m. ’’ _ ' ’ , \ Frosh basketball, Penn State vs. Bucknell, Rec. Hall, at 6:30 p.m. W,. A. Hanley, national ASME president, will speak on “Why National Defense?” at the Home. Ec Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Fireside Session Committee meeting, Hugh Beaver Room, Old Main, at 4 p.m. PSCA Race Relations Commit tee, Hugh Beaver Room, Old Main, 7 .p.m. All members, of the junior class of the School of Engineering meet in 121 Sparks Building at 4:10 p.m. All students interested in work ing with College Radio Station meet in 418 Old Main at 7:30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS Faculty members may file tax returns Monday and Tuesday, February 24 and 25, in 305 Old Main, . , Topians Elect Officers Officers of the Topian Society, student landscape architecture organization, will be elected in Room 205 Horticulture at 7 p. m.‘ this evening George Hay ’4l president, requests the presence of all landscape architecture students. Af The Movies CATHAUM: “Flight From Destiny” STATE “Wild" Man of Borneo” NITTANY: —and— Phone 4181 TOtJAY TOMORROW “Santa Fe Trail”