■PAGE T-WD TM-MRY COLLEfiIiM "ForAßeUerPenn Stale" 1940. Syccnfifor to the Penn State Collegian. cM-aWWiod 1904,' and the Free Lance, established 1887 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the College year by the students of The Pennsylvania J>'aV> College Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1934 at-the potifcofliire at State College, Pa., under of Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. „ /vciuin Jimyiiej: '4l Lawrence Briever. '4l ) vlite.tiaJ ond Business Office • ft]?. OteAai* Bldg. . Phono 711. -Editor This Lsue Pat Nagelbefler A.si.istanl.. Mnnaginff -Editor This Issue Gordon Coy '4£ Edito)- This Issue - Samuel L.- Stroll, Jr. .'4ft Women's liuiuc Editor. Alice M. Murray '42 Assistant Women's Editor Thin Issue __ Edith L. Smith. r 4S Saturday Morning, February 22, 1941 tim sir©iis M Association Cain Ifrfs CaiiweifioiJi Produce ! The Pennsylvania Student Government .Associ ation .which is meeting on our campus'these three days Would be doing the students of the common wealth a great service if it could achieve just one thing: A .-unity of purpose and a way of expression for all the students of the state. The implications of this suppestion are import ant- >. This should be an Association with which ALL students in the commonwealth are fully ac quainted—not just an Association of student lead- ers. ; -Most of student organizations and federa tion;: and congresses have the weakness that in -fhchymember colleges they are known only to the student leaders directly affected or associated. 2. To achieve this, the Association needs some ttiieans-.pf expression which would reach ALL stu dents,,not just student leaders. Here the college editors of the state might cooperate. 3. -The Association also needs the stabilizing • influence of a permanent officer, paid if possible. Today .there are so very very many matters of - importance to students that it is a shame they are . no). organized for -their views to be heard. Pardon ,us an example. Pennsylvania is one of only six states in the United States that does not Mia ve-what seems to be a very desirable something - • -absentee voting. Pennsylvania’s objection to absentee vp.ting (as yesterday’s editorial pointed out)-is strictly-political and is not so strong that it could survive the reaction of public opinion and „rfHtblie:deman.d : if all the people of the state were acquainted with the facts. Even the organized and-persistent shouting of college students keep- Mng .txp -the din in the ears of their individual leg - ».-)alors .would swine the measure, Collegian be lieves. This would be s very pertinent problem for an Association, such as that now meeting here is cap aide .of. becoming. A unified expression of student ini on. on. the draft might also carry telling- weight. To accomplish these things, the Association -rmist give itself a more permanent organization end must see that its word reaches into all the eol •4r-ges of the state, through the student leaders, to every member of every student body. "- „ fill, least Possible rttapfliiOT Of lie ,.. Life" "The purpose of Selective Service is to secure an orderly, just, and democratic method whereby tlio military manpower of the United States may ■rtx- made available for training .and- service with ■flit- least disruption of the social and ecc .-+iOinic-U£e of the nation." (From tlie opening par agarphy of the Selective Service Regulations.) ■Unless Congress takes action the Selective Service provision providing deferment for stu dents until the end of a college year is going to expire July 1. From then on students will go whenever they are called, dropping.their studies ■"wherever they are and hustling into the army for a year. If.a college student would lose only a year by ■rf. raving for .the army in November, for instance, • 'lie- could hardly complain'. Actually; he loses three whole semesters. In his peculiar position, the ' draft discriminates against him! It removes him •■from,his normal.life for 18 months rather than 12! Any student who interrupts a semester in the ■middle can count it.lost. After a year he will have to start all over again, anyway. Take the case of John Smith, a junior, who- is .-4'oing to be called next November. If. he is’taken -after.-mid-semesters, ..he loses all his fees and the •■semester,--too. He, goes into the army, comes out - fhc-.next November, and. has to wait until the next -■^'ebruary.-before, he can resume his studies. This in hardly fair and it is certainly not achiev ing the. least disruption possible. No one Would suffer any particular hardship if college students wore at least allowed deferment until the end of any semester already underway when they were called. Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Night Phone 41172 Louis K. Eel! .'MiiiiniuiiiiuuiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiumimmuiiiumiimiuiiiiUßiinifuunuimiimra "X/a <(/’"*