PAGE TWO THE Mill COLLEGIA! • '"Foe A Better Penn State"" Ki.i,iblishei 134 U. Successor to the Penn. State. established L9Q4, and the Free Lance, established 1687 Published daily erccepfc Sunday and Monday during the lobular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania ,6bate College. Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1934 at the r>ost-offiee at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, 1873 Editoc vsffiwsv ® us - and Adv- Mgr. / Adam Smyset '4l Lawrence Drierer '4l /Cdllotiai and Business OCEice 315 Old Mai.) Did;: ri»ori» 7 I l P.'wmcn’f, 'Vera L. Kemp Mi; Managing Editor - Hubert 11 Lnn.- Ml; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters • • N n '.': Fa! iter —WMlinm E. Fowler Ml; Feature Editor — Edward J. K. McLorie Mi; Assistant Managing Editor—Bay ►ml Bloom Ml ; Women’s Managing Editor—Aiita L. liefferan *4J.; Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel Ml._, Credit Manager—. John H. Thomas Ml; Circulation Man ager—Robert G. Robinson Ml ; Senior Secretary—Ruth. Gold »il-ein Ml; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis Ml. Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer M 2, R. Helen Cordon. M 2, Ross B- Lehman M 2. William J. Me Knight M 2. .Alice M. Murray M 2, Pat Nagelberg M 2, Stanley J. PbKemp jkm: M 2, Jeanne C. Stiles M 2. Junior Business Board —Thomas W\- Allison M 2. Paul M. Goldberg M 2. James E. McCaughey M 2. Margaret L. Embury *A?j, Virginia Ogden M 2. Fay E. Rees M 2. Managing Editor This Issue Stanley J. PoKempner M 2 Editor This Issue Richard S. Stebbins M 3 Assistant Managing Editor This Issue Herbert Zukauskas M 3 YAimen's Editor This Issue Arita L. Hefferan Mi A distant Women’s Editor Tills Issue Emily L- Funk M 3 i?OH NATIONAL, tjr National Advertising Service, Inc. b College Publishers Representative * < 420 Madison Ave. New York. n. Y. CMICAd* • • LOS AHGBLS3 * S.4H F^ASCU.ZiJ G) oduate Counselor Wednesday Morning, March 12, 1941 liberal Artists And War •‘Johnny get your gun!’’ is rapidly becoming the theme song for all male Liberal Arts students if ihe attitude prevalent in the Liberal Arts School is any criterion. To hear some of them talk, one would think that about the only purpose the C and F’er will serve in the near future is to earn his three squares a day and $3O per month in one of Uncle Sam’s army camps. True, his prospects of beginning a useful private citizen’s life are none too bright, but what about the future? What will happen, shall we say, five years from now, or whenever the present emer gency for national defense will have disappeared? Probably one of the main reasons for the down in-the-mouth attitude of the liberal artist is the apparent kicking around he has been getting un der the Selective Service Act. He is seeing the engineering and technical students placed in the exempt class and besieged with job offers right and left, while he is completely ignored and feels useless in the midst of the greatest industrial ac tivity in the history of the nation. And yet a care ful analysis should convince him that his service id society will be in demand when the country goes into an inevitable economic talrspin following the World W r ar 11. It stands to reason that once the emergency has passed, there will be a diminishing request for technically trained men who are riding on the top f)f the world right now. By that we don’t mean to .imply that all engineers will find themselves with out jobs. There is little doubt, however, that out colleges and universities will turn out an oversup ply of mechanically trained men. It has happened in- previous national crises and will happen again this time. It is then, when the country will be trying to dig itself out of the post-war tailspin, that the well prepared liberal artist will receive his opportun ity'. There will be a necessity for the readjust ment of our financial policy, our banking and tax ation muddle and government administration. There will be urgent need for immediate attention to the acute housing administration, the tinem- X>loyment problem and relief. Who will be better fitted to guide the nation out of its dilemna than the young men of America best trained in eco nomics, politics and social problems? The young liberal artist will do ■well' to shake off that feeling of uselessness and discoux-agemeht, and keep pace with the times until his nuriiber is called the second time. What hbmt The Faculty;! An anonymous Collegian reader has sent us a clipping which points out that at four New York City colleges faculty members have been asked to criticize the regulations under which they teach and to suggest changes. “Should happen here,” the sender remarks. Col legian is inclined to agree. Students here are tak ing the liberty of criticising the faculty through their school councils and Collegian presumes that the administration has always exercised that per ogative. That puts the faculty in a riot too hdjjpy' middle and it seems only fair they should be en couraged to reply to those administrative sources which would give them fair consideration. Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier Sc. Night Phone 4372 ... Louis EL Beti —P.N. uiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiii 4 LEAN AND HUNGRY LOOK liiimiiiiiiimiuHiitiiiiiiumiiiiiiiimiimKiuiHiiimuumtiumimuimtmiiimmii In the full realization that we ought not to in trude upon the province of the mighty, and that" we are already considered more than a little ob noxious for our inquiries into spheres wherein we are not concerned, we should yet like to make an other suggestion. We’ve heard a great many pe culiar rumors floating about, many of them in con nection with the unorthodox practice of signing contracts for orchestras before the dance commit tees have been appointed, many of them in con nection with the prices paid to those orchestras, and some of them in connection with the manner in which class committees serve only as stooges or figureheads, their work having been done for them and their decisions made by persons having no public hand in the pie. Thus far we've heard neither denial or confirmation of these rumors. From all we’ve been able to gather there’s some thing under the i-oses that doesn’t have quite a rosy fragrance, but no-one knows what it is. Or if it is. It would be reassuring to have some man ner of answer to all this. Either the student gov ernment or the administration would do well, we think, to recognize the growing discontent engen dered by such rumors and take measures to prove them either false and unfounded or true. There's no pleasure in feeling as if you’ve been taken for a sucker if you really haven’t. Today finds the political mechanisms of the two cliques grinding away at full speed. It has -been, we are in£ormed~by one who is potent and cunning among the seekers of votes, great election weath er. Paraphrasing Napoleon’s acute commentary implying that God is on the side of the heaviest artillery, we might say that the elections this year will apparently go to the clique having the most .automobiles. No point in asking any one to walk through snow and ice simply to vote. We are waiting patiently for the modern dan cers to announce that they will dance one of Mr. Roethke’s poems. Mr. Auden has already been thus honoured we hear. If we - may be permitted the liberty, we have a vague feeling that one day the modern dancers will get themselves in for ■something they hadn’t bargained for. This bus iness of dancing about to just anything can lead to inconceivable results. Consider the Encyclo pedia Britannica. * * * It might perhaps be of passing interest to the casual reader to observe that Mr. Hervev Allen had absolutely no part in the composition of Mr. James Hilton’s novel “Lost Horizon,” despite any opinion oi' ours to the contrary. Which of the two gentlemen is to be congratulated for the fact is something of a question. For our part we’d just as soon forget the entire affair, having spent a rather wretched week trying to explain away a pretty nasty mistake 3 Button 1 Single Breasted I $75.00 I “Home Of” , I Hart, Schaffnei • & Marx I KALIN’S . I MEN’S SHOP! 130 S. Alien St I SUITS Flannels Tweeds THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Supervises Elections Richard C. Peters ’4l, chairman of the All-College Elections Com mitte, will supervise All-College elections which began yesterday and ends tomorrow. The com mittee will be in charge of the voting booths and enforce the election code. Letters to the Editor — Loan Fund Already Established Here To the Editor: - In consideration of the Class of 1941 gift, the seniors should be aware that the Class of 1922 has recently diverted its fluids— about $30,000 —from a swimming pool to the student loan fund. Although a loan fund is a com mendable gift, it seems to me that toe Class of 1922’s actioti makes' it desirable for, 1941 to provide for the completion of the Old Main mural project while Henry Varnum Poof is stili avail able. The loan fund has already been established. Let’s complete what promises to be one of the most outstanding works ,of art in the country. 'Fascism' In WS6A, Reader Charges To the Editor I wish to register a protest against the action of WSGA in making last week's mass meeting compulsory. Not only were they exceeding their authority in so doing, but they committed the same blunder that fascism com mits in supposing that forcing one to adhere to the external form makes one respect the underly ing ideal. Compulsory saluting of tlie flag does not bring respect; neither will compulsory attend ance at meetings produce the interest sought by WSGA. If the girls are not sufficiently interest ed perhaps the fault lies with WSGA. —Cassius. Captain Held to Leave Capt. Lewis I. Held, ROTC in structor, has received notifica tion from the War Department ordering him to leave the College Friday, to assume duty as instruc tor at the Tactical Section of the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. Captain Beld was initiated into Scabbard and Blade on Sun day. THE MUSIC ROOM Glennlahd Building "A Penn Stale Tradition" RCA VICTOR RECORDS RADIOS Very truly yours, Harold G. Wilson ’4l Your sincerely, Jean Lowry ’42 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1941' TODAY: Engineering, applicants for U- S. Naval Reserve report to 202 Engineering E to make appoint ments for interviews;' PSCA Speakers Committee;"" 304 Old Main, 4 p. m. PSCA Fireside chairmen, Hugh Beaver Room, 4 p. m. Dean A; R. Warnock, speaker. Housing lecture, Ellis' Tomp son, executive assistant, to Pitts burg Housing Authority. “Pub lic Housing in Pennsylvania,”’ 124 Sparks, 4p. m. • • - PSCA Cabinet, Hugh Beaver Room, 8:15 p. m. Election of 1941-42 officers. PSCA Community' Service Committee, Hugh Beaver Room, 7 p. m. Amy G. Gardner, asso ciate professor of Home .Eco nomics, speaker. • Meeting of' woman debaters, varsity and freshmen. Campus Photo Shop, 6:45 p. m. .Coffee Round Table Hour, Hil lel, Foundation, 4 p. m.; Womens Rifle Club meeting, 2 White Hall, 7 p. m. Nomina tioris for officers, all members.... should bb present. • ••.••• Participaiits in intercollegiate .. telegraphic . swim meet,._White Hall pool, 7:45 p. m. Officials; . 7:30. Meet, 8 p. m. n All-College elections,. 'iti&'J floor lounge Old Main, 12;30 p, , iri. tb 8 p. hi. Student Union dance, Armbry; 4 p. rii. 'L\. -V IMA Central Council, 318 Old Main, TO p. m. . " - Hbtise of Representatives, 305 Old Main, 5 p. m. ' Ail fraternity presidents should; turn in IF bridge tournament' applications and fees by noon to Student Union. TOStORROW: All-College elections,' fitst ” floor lounge Old Main. Student Handbook editorial-., staff, 7:30 p. m." Room to' be an nounced. . ' czzzz, Playing at the State for last time today is the Loew ancE -^" -"j Lewin production “So Ends Our ™ Night.” a moving and poignaht- ~::.: love story. Told through the eyes, .. : of political refugees, the' story vss.. takes place in several European' ' capitals. - - “So Ends Our Night”’ stars Margaret Sullavan, Fredric March, Frances Dee, and. Glenn. Ford. It is the movie version of-' Erich Maria Remarque's “Flot sam” and depicts the battle: :of the refugees to overcome oppresr;™.:::::: sion at the time of Hitler’s.•ihv9n“:~j" sion of Austria. 300 Apply (Continued from Page One)--2;—r. : . be formed if more than _l5 ’- dents from one fraternity~ehrdlE>2-:: : : '■ in the course sportsorecEßy fther..—. ~ School of Physical EducatfoiiJatid-'; : .::: Athletics as part of . the >5H program. IZEr- r .. These special classes•-'Wltlr fife held in fraternity houses_afc..apy time desired by the.situd.ents. Application blanks should be-15S*j : - turned to Room 116 Recr^atiotf... Hali before 5 p. There is no fee foElScaSßltSfer-E'l-S:
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers