PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "Tac A Batter Pean State'"' 19tO. S'l-iie.iMc to tne Penn Slate Collegian, e.itiblirthed 1904, ami the* Pnie Lance, established 1837 Published daily exceiJt Sunday and Monday during tha regular College year hy the students of The Pennsylvania College Entire,! a:i se:ond*class matter .July G, 1934 til. the inst-offict? at State College. Pa., under the act of Jifnr.± B, IH'?U Editor __ Bus; and Adr. Mgr. Adam Smyser '4r. Lawrence .Driaver '4l 3D li-orial ami B-Jsine.iu Office 313 Old Main BHif Phono 711 W- imen s Eiit/jr—Vein. L Kemp ’IL; Editor 17. l’; rt Lazio ’4 L; Sports Editor-—Richard C. Peters II; News Editor—William E. Fowler ’4l: Feature Editor— Jt-lwar-d J. K. MeLorie ’4l; Assistant Manajrinjr EJitnr—Bay jovj Bloom '4l; Women's M'in.a;riri:r Editor —Arita L. Hefferau 41 ; Women’s Feature Elito-r-—Edythe B. Rickel ’4l. Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42. R. Helen Gordon '42, Ross B. Lehman ’42, William J.' McKnijrht '42, M. Murray ’42. Pa.t NAjelberg ’42, Stanley J. I'oKemy. ner ’42. Jeanne C.' Stiles ’42. Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison ’42, Paul M. Goldberg ’42, James E. MeCautrhey ’42. Margaret L. Embury '42, Virginia Ogden ’42. Fay E. Rees ’42. -Credit Manager—John H. Thomas '4l; Circulation Man* ager—Robert G. Robinson '4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth Gold* Klein '4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis ’4l. Managing Editor This Issue William J. McKnight '42 Assistant Managing Editor This Issue -Nicholas W. Votsy ’43 News Editor This Issue .Robert W. C.Kjper '43 Women’s Editor This Issue Arita L- Hefreran ’4l .Assistant Women’s Editor This Issue Louise M. Fuo.is’4:i l»ls.»l»i!JlXisrili3 POi» AOvfi*TIJIK4.3 iJV Natiiainial Advertising Service, Iw',. College Publishers Representatevri 420 Madison Avg. new York. n. y. CWIC/HJI? * HO'if'Jif • I.O‘S AiWRUi’J • S/»I1 Fl»A»-:iiCil Ginduate Counselor Wednesday Morning, March 5, 1941 Student ©omi Government Penn State student Leaders, with a auiticeable swagger, boast that they have one of the strongest student self-governments in the nation. President Hetzel admits to making the same boast at meet ings of college presidents. Even discounting pardonable patriotism, the boast holds water. Most frequently it is made by those who represent .Penn State at college meet ings where student government is a main topic. They go to these meetings unconvinced, come back convinced. The Penn State form of government, marked as it is by strongly partisan politics, is both realistic and idealistic. During campaigns it may stoop to the former but afterwards it reaches for the stars. To its credit, it grabs off a few every year. On problems affecting strictly themselves— customs, fraternity actions, social affairs, and the like—students' have almost unlimited freedom and their leaders are promised College support in all actions. In matters involving outside considerations, the administration has shown itself unusually willing to listen to student opinion. Such requests have brought an increase in the dean of men’s office, changes in the College calendar, student represen tation in the College Senate, the free hospitaliza tion plan. Still under consideration are housing improvement and the student placement bureau, both likely to be realized later if not sooner. This attitude, carefully cultivated,- has served to instill in students a desire to handle their own ■government because they know that their ideas will carry weight. It’s fun trying when you know you have a chance. Other colleges, apparently, are too prone- to gather all the reins in the hands of the administra tors and keep them there. Admittedly It takes courage for a veteran to sit back while some un certain new hand brags the reins. President HetzeL is one of the few administra tors strong enough (some might have said fool hardy enough when he started) to take a chance on the student ability to bungle through, to refrain from grabbing the reins every time the going got a little tough, to give students a chance to work out their own salvation. His foolhardiness has brought some kind of good fruit. It has given the student leaders an unusual educational opportunity. It has relieved the ad ministration of considerable detail work. It has created a healthy college atmosphere. If it teaches good lessons of government it will have helped )?enn State to better serve Pennsylvania. Penn sylvania needs good government. +• * * As a parting note, Collegian suggests that, al though strong, Penn State’s student government is not nearly as strong as it could be. If it could be seen and not heard Collegian now would leer at the student councils. Of all the arms of student government, the stu dent councils are the least efficient, the least ac tive, the least worthwhile. Their members and •their leaders apparently don’t have the imagina tion necessary to see how potent they are. Downtown Offic-a 119-121 South Pta-iior St. Night Phono 4372 Louw It. Bell iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiniimiiimiimii A LEAN AND HUNGRY LOOK iiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniiiji! For delightful light reading during the coming spring afternoons we recommend the political platforms of the two cliques. If Mr. Hervey Allen had not already copped the idea vve would suggest as their title “Lost Horizon.” . A Mr. Grey, who is the publisher of the British magazine Aeroplane, is reported quite authenti cally to have stated recently that he was, person ally, getting most irritated over the shoddy planes the U. S. was giving to England. Presently, Mr. Grey went on to say, the Americans will be want ing to come over' here and win our war for us. Then, he added, England will be subjected to an other twenty years of America’s insufferable brag ging. Together with Air Marshal Hugh Dowding, Mr. Grey has done much to restore our faith in the fact that no matter' how noble “this England” is painted by her propagandists, fighting for hel l's still a matter of choosing the lesser of two rath er slimy evils. For which we expect the wrath of almost everybody and a couple of years spent as a social outcast. Interesting sidelight on the melancholy state of America’s mental age is a little parenthetical note in a bulletin concerning fireside chats issued by the C.A. Listing the subjects that might be spoken upon by one of the faculty, the C.A. probably ran across one which it thought might not be quite understood by the great mass of students. The title of the lecture was “Do We Already Have the Basis for a Corporate State (Fascism) in America?” Students Want The Low-Down AUSTIN, Tex. —If democracy is to be safe guarded, it is important and necessary that Amer ican colleges and universities teach the youth of the nation the facts about foreign “isms” that threaten the world today. That is the opinion of a two-thirds majority of collegians the country over, reflected in a scientific manner through Stu dent Opinion Surveys of America. . The European debacle has forced attention on a long-evaded problem: how to inform Americans of totalitarian ideology and at the same time not en danger our democratic institutions. “Stop teach ing these ‘isms’ in our colleges” has been the de mand most often heard. But men of greater dis cernment have questioned tha wisdom of prohibit ing instruction in these forms of government. What do students themselves think about this, they who are actually taking the courses? Should the col leges continue to present “the facts about com munism, socialism, naziism, and fascism?” With that question Surveys interviewers approached a cross section of collegians. Here are the answers: YES, teach the facts 66% NO, do npt teach them 34% 1 / v Proclaiming "OPEN HOUSE" —for — Penn’ State on March 10th * k k Theodore Roefhkes First Book of Poems * "OPEN HOUSE" Autographed, First Editions - —at— THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE 129 W. BEAVER THE DAILY COLLEGIAN ** ■ * Letters to the Editor — Trustee Urges Keen Interest In Government To the Editor: I have read with much interest the occasional editorials and let ters in The Daily Colelgian hav ing to do with acquainting college undergraduates with social and political problems involved in the defense of our representative democracy. As evidence of my interest I should like to make two brief remarks on this topic. Our freedom in America rests on three inter-related supports— a tripod if you will, one leg of which is constitutional represent ative democracy; the second, free private enterprise; the third, civil and religious liberty. These three supports stand or fall to gether. Destroy constitutional representative democracy and pure democracy will soon degen erate into despotism and tyranny. Destroy religious liberty by big otry or class or racial feeling and the very well-springs of repub lican self-government dry up.- Destroy free private enterprise by state socialism and the event ual destruction of civil and re ligious liberty is bound to follow. Education that does not mold the entire man—mentally and morally—is: lethal poison for the individual .and social dynamite for the body politic. Mo.st of us in our ignorance do npt realize that our American system of rep resentative democracy rests on a body of principles just as pre cise, definite and concrete as those ythat underlie socialism, communism, nazism or fascism. Out schools and colleges and churches must cure that situa tion and cure it quickly if the American republic is to survive. For in the long run mien will fight only for principles-- which they understand and in which they believe. So as the nation arms itself physically, our citi zenry should be ever on guard and alert lest we find ourselves, when the present crisis is over, with only the empty shell, of the republic we are now preparing to defend. • Certainly, one agency by which college, undergraduates can in form themselves for this task, is , the student newspaper and I con gratulate you on your efforts in j that direction. —Cassius Editor’s Note:—Mr. Prentis, a trustee of the College, is also president of the Armstrong Cork Company and last year served as president of the National (Manufacturers Association. DlilEff Wanted and 3t3UU offered P.w.—Philadelphia. L—Fri. 4 p.m. Call 711, 220 Jordan Hall. R.W. Bethlehem or vicinity. L —Fri. 12. Call Lois, 7 Ath Hall. R.W. Philadelphia. L—Fri. C— -160 Ath Hall, 5051. ENGINEER’S HOP March 14th in the Armory 9-12 v Informal $l.OO per couple fax incl. H. W. Prentis, Jr Lancaster, Pa. You've Seen Item On The Stage— You've Heard Them in The —Thespian Show— And Now You Can Dance To That Music You Can't Forget At With Jimmy Leyden and His Penn State Collegians v WEDNESDAY, MARCH- 5,' 1941-.’.-.- CAMPUS CALENDAR;! TODAY PSCA Community Service. Committee, Hugh-‘Beaver Rood},- 7 p.m. - ' : r-r Cwen meeting in WSGA Room, White Hall at 6:45, p. in.’- : Meeting of House of Repre-r sentatives, Room 3iB Old Main, at 5 p.m. . - Meeting of Omicron Nu, 117- Home Economics, 7:30 p.m. PSCA Pocono Conference" Delegation Meeting, Hugh Beaver - Room, 4 p.m. New delgates may come to this meeting. PSCA Cabinet Meeting, Hugh Beaver Room, 8 pan. • :: : Student Union Dance in the Armory at 4 p.m. Coffee Round Table Hour, Hillel Foundation at:4 p.m. lota Lambda Sigma smoker for industrial education students, Sandwich Shop, 8 p.m.. ... Open meeting -of Delta Sigma Pi, Room 121 Sparks Building, ? p.m. R. E. Phillips will -talk on “Public Works Administration in Pennsylvania'Cities,” 124 Sparks Building, 4 p.m. . Bank note-exhibition, will con tinue in the library until March -13. -’42 Independents, 318. Old Main, 7 p.m. : Priestley lecture, 119 . New Physics, 7 p.m. TOMORROW . Meeting of candidates fpr the. , editorial staff of the Student, Handbook, Room 412 Old-Main,.-. 7:30 p.m. First assignments wi-l x he given out. ' H . • ... Bell Will Talk Louis H. Bell, assistant pro-' fessor of journalism, will speak before the Ellen H. Richards club in Room 117 Home, Economics: at 7 p.m. today on “Opportunities -' For. Home Economists In. Journ alism.” On March 21, He.wilt ad--_ dress the Western Pennsylvanian Scholastic Press Association, meeting in Vandergrift on “Why- High School Joumali sm?” - - The late Dr. Francis H. Her rick, professor emeritus of biol ogy at Western Reserve Univer sity, was widely known for’his study of American eagles DID YOU KNOW that the Penn State wrestling team wan the Eastern Intercol legiate wrestling title the first four years after their entrance to the association, 1918 to 1921 inclusive? FROMM'S OPP. OLD MAIN
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