PAGE TWO THE {DAILY COLLEGIA!! "Fot A Better Penn Stale" PubliMKM aui!y except Sunday and Monday duri«s ‘.he eshihli.'d'Kt: mid tho Free Lance, 1867 ) /.•UililiiOied Succesf-or to the Penn State Collegian, i .*;»ular Cohere :-tar by the !?tuden> of Tho fo-rtk* College. Petered a? second-olus;- matter July 5, 10JU at .the at State College, Pa., uruitr the act ot ■•fsTurch 8, 1«79. Editor ircu Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Adam Snrrser *4l Lawrence Driever ”41 I"’.litoruil arul Busine-h Office n?> Old -Main Bld«. Phone '7ll ♦.innacini; Editor This Issue Pat Nagelbetfr *42 A.-;n»«lnnt Man&trir.ji Editor This I-sut Gordon Coy '4ll Editor This Issue . Samuel L. Stroh. Jr. *4ll Women’s Editor Alive M. Murray '42 yti-.sljjta.rit .Vvotr-.t. n’s Editor This Issue .. Edi Pr. L. Smith r 4n Friday Morning, February 21. 1941 k 'Survey Of Government, Gr, lew Men Make History Call this “Politics Stinks” if you like. It is a story of “progress,” the story of an idea •-most fair-minded men agree would help Pennsyl vania government, and the story of their stymied efforts over a 18-year period to put that idea into ilioir state constitution. It. is the story of narrow-minded men (we call thorn politicians)’and almost a story of intrigue. That the idea Yias persisted is proof enough it is ..good. As far back as 1923 the Pennsylvania Legisla ture was convinced that absentee voting was prac tical and desirable. That year it passed a law. •which Governor Pinchot signed, setting up ab sentee voting for the state. Presently the state courts declared the law unconstitutional and said ft. amendment was necessary. It is enough to set down here that an amend- Client takes a long, tedious time to secure. •The bill must pass both houses of the Legisla ture twice and in sessions two years apart. If that >:; accomplished, the citizens must approve the on-iendrnent at the next general election. Thus, the very shortest time to secure an amendment is r.lightly under three years. Since 1930. this amendment has been proposed 1., every session of the Legislature but that in 1933. ).i is being proposed again to the 1941 Legislature. The various fates with which it has met are too dory to mention in detail. After a brief summary, \v e will burden you with only one. The bill passed the House unanimously, 194-0, •Hi 1931 then was choked in the Senate.. In other years its offspring were murdered in all manner of committees, chiefly that on elections. In 1937, it came up before a united Democratic ' .legislature and miraculously passed both houses, 191-1, and 32-2. When it came .up for second pas sage in 1939, our gory story was begun. The Com ■.(jiittee on Constitutional Amendments did away with Representative Dix’s bill in The House. Sen ator Ruth, who originally sponsored the bill in 1937, took it before the Senate where a dissimilar • IVtv; was in store. •The first vote of the 1939 Senate on absentee voting exactly reflected the party alignments, 23 .-’Democrats for, 23 Republicans against. To be .-gassed ft needed 26 votes. In a shrewd parlia mentary move, Senators Ruth and Shapiro chang- cl their votes to the negative. Under the rules, any two senators having voted in the negative may •,jnove for the reconsideration of a bill within the •♦l'ixt five legislative days. No sufficient switching of votes could be obtained for final passage of the lull and it went into the records as defeated, 25- ?.). On April 12, 1939, the two senators in a last desperate effort to save their, amendment had it -recommitted to the Judiciarv General but thev r * - .trover got enough votes to bring it out for success ful reconsideration. While the bill was being discussed in the Com jnitt.ee ch the Judiciary General, the Republican jtnembers said they would oppose it on the floor because were it to pass there would be 40,000 vot ers who could not be controlled, which would be .sufficient number to swing the election against the machine candidates! This year the Legislative process is starting again. Senator Ruth and Representative Powers having introduced the bill to their respective li'iuses. As college students we have a vital stake in this decision. Most of us can'afford neither the brae nor the money to leave classes for what is often our very first chance to exercise the fran ichise. A letter to our representatives arid our senators wilt do some good. Supesfion On Government Eecause too many student government confer ences are attended only by senior leaders, who -graduate before they can initiate any local gov ernmental reform, it has been suggested bv W. 1 s.jwis Corbin. ’4l that all political aspirants for the coming All-College elections attend these murid table and forum meetings. By listening to the trading of ideas by experienced leaders, the politicians car. better understand the intricacies :il stU'k'f'". rule Downtown Office lib-121 ifouth Frasier &t. iSitrht Phor>f* 4v'*72 t- # iiuiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiuiuiiiHiuniimuiuiiiiiiiHiiiuiiiiiiiitumiiiiiuiiiiiHiiuiMtutm % iiiiiiiiHiitiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiumifEißmtitmmtmiiiittiii) Tantalizing Toimita. ’ Before I heard the doctors tell Tire dangers of a kiss, I had considered kissing you The nearest thing to bliss; But now I know biology, And sit and sigh and moan; Six Million mad bacteria— And I thought we were alone. Love's Labor Lost I’ve never been dated, I’ve never been kissed. They say if I waited No man would resist The lure of a pure and innocent miss, The trouble is this, — I’m fifty. —Shippensburg S.T.C. The Awful Truth V/-rabbits is a pe-cul-iar race Their private lives is a dis-wgrace, Why, you would blush if you but knew. The awful thing's that w-rabbits do. And often, too. —The Skidmore News Student Of The Moment He whose name begins with a B'who turns up the day after drop ads go through and the .class has been alphabetically seated. I went to the movie And what did I see? The hat on the woman In front of me! When Alexander Pope wrote that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” he must have been cramming for a final exam. Under the spreading chestnut tree The smith works like the deuce, For now he’s selling candy. Hot dogs, and orange juice. And while we’re on the subject of vegetables, is there anything so wonderful as that feeling of mutual companionship which arises when you dis cover that both you and your date rounded out supper with an onion or six. With ASCAP and BMI feuding over royalties for the kings of swing, radio programs have had to revive tor murder) many of -the old classic—al though the composers would probably never re-, cognize them. If the thing goes on, we may expect some day to be hearing “Carmen Through the Bye.”. —Daily Athenaeum Could Be! The Comer THE DAILY COLLEGIAN .COLLEGIA N A —Daily Athenaeum * c unusual Army Air Corps lists Information An information sheet for col lege students interested in ap plying as flying cadets in the-' Army Air Corps has been issued by the Chief of the Air Corps. All candidates must be un married male citizens between 20 and 26 years of age inclusive. They must have completed two years of .college work or pass an equivalent examination. The period .of training -takes nine months and. is broken into three month sections. The first period is spent in elementary training. —On completing this training, cadets are sent to Ran dolph Field, Texas. Final in struction is giyen at Kelley Field, Texas. All cadets are furnished gov ernment transportation from place of enlistment to the flying school and they receive $75 a month plus a ration allowance of $1 a day. Dance Dates Changed Student Union dances, which have been held only on' Wednes day since the beginning of second semester, will now be held in the Armory every Tuesday and Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. Read The Collegian Classifieds IPMiMWiiiM ' vc *r:::;:::*:;:;::$::;::::J::::;:;:;:f:s:;:^:::;:5;:::¥:-!i: : : : : :^$?$:i:%$:;:§S$:: «1P W' " FRIDAY,' FEBRUARY '2l, 1941:. CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY: Newman Club, newly-formed Catholic organization, will meet' at Phi Kappa, 9 tp.-mr ; Refresh— £ ments and dancing- • • Ah graduate students are in vited to attend meeting of Gracfc- ££ uate Club, Sandwich Shop, $ p3npr: PSCA World Reconstruction Committee meeting, --Hugh Beav- ~ er Room,-8:15p. m.- - . Collegian Dance, Rec Hall, 9 Ice skating oii" tennis court rinks, 7 to 10 p. m. ' •MISCELLANEOUS: ' Faculty members may file tax" returns Monday, arid" Tuesday, Room 305 Old Mairi. : INFIRMARY CASES A checkupL last night revealed that 15 persons are confined in the .College Infirmary. They are: John F. Freet ’43, Doris Jane Boiler ’4l, Warren W. Scott ’43. Alvira L. Konapka ’4f, Betty R. Marshall ’43, • Charles'' H.' Seitz ’43, Anna Ruth Flory ’4l, Charles A. Rossiter ’44, J. 'Byron Swan ’42, grippe. - Joyce F. Swan, graduate, Dora E. Colyer ’44, Mildred M. Taylor ’42, Byrne P. Coleman ’43, bron chitis;'Henry J. Eavis •’41, : obser- , vation; Samuel A. Janney, Naval- Reserve, measles. '■-■■■ Yale College was or iginally'lo cated at Saybrok, Conn. mmmrnM liliisl 4*41 ' N
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