PAGE TWO HUE DAILY COLILESIIi ■ "Fa c A Better Penn State"' )uslibUshe<i 1943. Suceedaor to the Penn State Colley tan. e.itablfahe.J 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1887 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the rvajular College yeir by the students of The Pennsylvania ftt-alo College. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934 at the post-office at State College. Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879 Editor Bus, and Adv, Mgr,, Smyssr MU. Lawrence Drtever '4l JDtbhjrial and Busiuess OCfi.c.t; 813 Okl Mam Bldg- Phone 7U Vt'orneri'a Eiifcor—Vera L Kemp *4l; Managing Editor •—Robert Ef Lme “41.; Sports Editor—Kichard C. Peters M) ; News Editor—Williem E. Fowler '4l; Feature Editor — Elward J. K. McLfrie '4l, Assistant Managing Editor—Bay- O'd Bloom ’4l; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. Kefferan. Ml; Women's Feature Eli toe—Edythe B. Rickel ’4l. Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42. R. Helen Gordon '42, Ro:>s B. Lehman *42. William J. McKnight '42. Alice M. Murray ’42.. Pat Nagelberg '42, Stanley J. PoKemp nc*r ‘42, Joanne 0. Stiles '42. Junior Busings Board—Thomas W. Allison *42. Paul M. Goldberg *42. James E. MoCaughey *42. Margaret L. Embury M 2, Virginia- Ogden M 2, Pay E. Rees *42. Credit Manager—John H. Thomas MI; Circulation Kah-v —Robert C. Robinson Ml; Senior Secretary—Ruth Gold- Ml; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis Ml. Managing Editor This Issue Stanley J. PoKempner Assistant Managing Editor This Issue .Nicholas W. Vo7*zy W«'W!> Editor This Lsue ! Samuel L. Strtih Jr. "Women's Editor This Issue Vera L. Kemp Assistant Women's Editor This Issue ...Kathryn M. Popp Metaber Pissodaied Cbile6ide Rres r > GdlleSiole Di6est wai»r»llili2i*TilO t'OH NATIONAL ADVE*TIUV National Advertising Service., Iro.\. College Publishers Representative, 420 Madison Ave. New York. m.y\ Chicago • ibisrui* • I.o*j Awoi-lisj • 3*n Fhaa-nsou G» oduate Counselor Friday -Morning, March 7, L 941 l%„ Maul Sets Mis Cap Jtnir Hie (Educational Ventura In the name of protection of the public interest, a lot of strange things are going on in Harrisburg these days. Not the strangest of these—but one of them—is the House investigation of the Soil Conservation Board and the extension service of the Pennsyl vania State College sponsored by Representative Moul. Collegian does not have enough information on the problem of soil erosion to pose itself as -an authority and it is not going to try. However, it can't help thinking the issue is more political than real. Otherwise the House would hardly have voted the issue (as it did) on strictly party lines, all Republicans agaipst, every Demo crat but one for. Briefly, the fight has been described as one over policy rather than over accomplishment. The Democratic federal government wants to set up compulsory erosion programs over the state. The Republican state government has been content to proceed on education lines. It is barely possible that the Democratic House majority might also be trying to embarrass the Re publican administration. No Democrat has sug gested. this motive. The Republicans have. ■ Somehow the Collegian is inclined to agree with the Republicans. A few passages from the resolu tion show why: “'Whereas, the Democratic Administration of George H. Earle enacted the Soil Conservation Districts Law of 1937 and created the Soil Con servation Board to cooperate with the Federal Government' in a national program of conserva tion and soil erosion; and "Whereas, the Democratic Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt has provided funds even tually to control erosion on the hillsides of Penn sylvania and other headwaters states, etc. . . . "Whereas, the inaptitude of the present admin istration has brought the General Assembly face to face with a major financial crisis with many funds raided and many appropriations raided, etc. If these are not political words, Collegian has never heard political words. Apparently, too, the sponsor of the bill was not too well acquainted with the College he attacked. Mr. Moul wanted to investigate the agricultural extension service, apparently, but his bill forgot to state this and included just “the extension serv ice”—engineering and all the rest. The investigation is underway and the College is cooperating in every way possible. 'Represen tative Moul may discover something interesting and in the course of his probing he may learh a ).dt of .'new things. Collegian certainly hopes so. It particularly -hopes that he learns that politics and education Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Night Phone 4372 Druribulor of .iLoubi H. Bell iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmiiiiiiini with ROBERT LANE (Tlia opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily re flect the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.) fliiiiHiimutHiiiiudiisiiniiiiiiiiiimuiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiMimiiiimiiiiinuiiiiifiiumi Although history books will probably fail to re cord tlie fact, cafes are playing an important part in European events today. Tomorrow those romantic little sidewalk res taurants where Frenchmen held rendezvous, where Italians talked politics, and where Americans toss ed champagne bottles, may be closed forever. The history of the German cafe does not pre sent the chronicler with the.wealth of material •that surrounds other European cafes. However, if it is possible to call a Munich beer cellar a cafe, it can be recalled only too vividly that a certain German restaurant has succeeded in its bid for fame. , A •42 v The first hint from abroad that the cafe was •43 not the most healthy place in which to be discov *4l ered came with the news of the German invasion '4^: of Paris. The drinking places of Gay Paree were without patrons as the Nazi legions rolled across the Marne. For six months after the fall of France the European cafe did not receive one line of pub licity in the American press. Then one night, a Bulgarian restaurant entered its bid for recogni tion with headlines telling about the now famous ‘■Battle of the Bottles in the Balkans.” By the tossing of a well-aimed bottle an Ameri can diplomat might easily have changed the map of Europe, but fortunately, all he accomplished was the changing of the map of a German army officer. After this attempted decapitation of an important cog in the German military machine, the cafe again resumed its unsung place in the annals- of Europe, at least, until yesterday. Italian cafes were not to be ignored while other gin-palaces squandered the limelight. When the “Gods that be” discovered that the people were talking politics in the sidewalk restaurants, a de cree was issued stating that the cafes would be closed this coming Spring. In Italy, politics are tolerated only to a .certain degree. That degree does not include the right to talk about holding an election, especially when they don’t intend to “draft” their present leader for another term. .Without the cafes Europe may lose a great deal, of the glamor which it has attained in the past. Writers can no longer depend on French cafes for volumes of romantic literature. Artists will mourn the lost opportunity of putting a new Italian cafe scene on canvas. The Bulgarian mug-house will no longer provide the opportunity for Americans to indulge in a barroom brawl. But that is the price Of civilization, especially the .European type, in which the concentration camp replaces the cafe of yesterday. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Nibbling A! The News Letters to the Editor — Reader Asks About . WSGA's Mass Meeting To the Editor; Your editorial, “Student Good Government,” was timely "and well deserved. Now, how about discussing .the other side of the picture with an analytic para graph or two on WSGA’s recent flop: compulsory politics? Several hundred coeds l’efuse to be forc ed—several hundred of the better Penn State women lost to WSGA —several hundred young Penn sylvanians given a new slant upon Government, a slant that leads to—??? How about a dis cussion of last week’s compul sory mass meeting perhaps WSGA knows the answers. But I doubt theiv validity. ; Sincerely yours, Howard Yates '4l INFIRMARY CASES A checkup last night revealed that • 10 people are confined in the College Infirmary, They are Robert W. Noll 42, sprained an kle; Joyce Goodale ’4l, tonsilli tis; Robert Preston ’44, Donald A. Kratzer ’44, grippe; John Fow ler ’43, Robert H. Akins ’43, Har old G. High ’42, J. Morton Thom son Jr. ’4l, George Plush Jr. ’44, David Gordon ’44, German meas les. ... when Me 'mete “What’s in a NamlS The Bard of Avon was right about the rose its name is unimportant. But if he’d had anything to do with naming telephone exchanges, he’d have learned a lot! Names must be easy to pronounce and transmit—mugt not look or sound like other exchange names —must not use the same dial finger spaces. * Take MUIR and OTIS, for example. Fine! —except they dial alike! For the first two letters of each appear in the same finger spaces on the dial. Often hundreds of names are listed, studied, discarded before one is found that meets all requirements. Such care phase of Bell System work helps to makte your telephone service the world’s finest. WhynottelephonehOme often?, Long Dis tance rates to most point* are lowest any night after 7 M. and all day Sunday. I FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiitiiiiira CAMPUS CALENDAR iiiniiiiimimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmim TODAY Friday evening" service, Hillel Foundation, 7130 p.m. .Grange Moron Party in 405 Old Main at 8 p.m. PSCA Freshman Council band, 304 Old Main3:3o p.m. PSCA swimming party, Glenn land Pool, 7:30 p.m. TOMORROW Campus Center Club members will hold a “Defense Party” in Atherton Hall lounge beginning at 8 o’clock. All members are in vited. AJ Ibe Movies CATHAUM— ‘.‘Footsteps In The Dark” 1 STATE— “Blondie Goes Latin” NITTANY— ‘Ride Kelly Ride”' Alderfer Re-Elected Dr. Harold F. Alderfer, profes sor of political science,, has been re-elected secretary of the Penn sylvania State Association •of Boroughs. Read The Collegian Classifieds
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