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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
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Editor __ Bus; and Adr. Mgr.
Adam Smyser '4r. Lawrence .Driaver '4l
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jovj Bloom '4l; Women's M'in.a;riri:r Editor —Arita L. Hefferau
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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.
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Goldberg ’42, James E. MeCautrhey ’42. Margaret L. Embury
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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.
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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%
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v Proclaiming
"OPEN HOUSE"
—for —
Penn’ State
on March 10th
* k k
Theodore Roefhkes
First Book of Poems *
"OPEN HOUSE"
Autographed, First Editions
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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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.
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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