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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
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♦.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
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- .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
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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
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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.
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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. '■-■■■
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cated at Saybrok, Conn.
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