PAGR TWO THE \M\M COLLEGIAN “Fo:c A Better Penn State"'' >i;t.iMisbed 1040. Successor t«> the Penn State Col.'evrbiEi, established' 1904, and the Free Lance. established 1887 Published daily except Sunday and Monday duri.ru? .the regular College yeiir by the students of The Pennsylvania Ofcif/i College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1984 nt the por>t~offu:<? at State College. Pa., under the act of. March 8. 1870 Editor S&SF'- ® us * an< * Mgr. Adam Sir.'piit "4i; Lawrence Briever-’4l K<l*iou/u o:u! Business Off■.«:<* B‘.j OU Maui L'luiie 7 l L WkMiicu 6 EJiUr—Vcra* L. ICemp ML; Managing Editor t H. Lane Ml; Sports Editor —Richard C. Peters M 1 : Nsvvs JCJin>r —William E. Fowler Ml; Feature Editor — JSJwncJ J. K. MoLorie Ml; Assistant Managing Editor —Bay- ru ;1 Bloom Ml; Women's Managing Editor —Anita L. Kefferan *4); Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel ML. _ Credit Manager—-John. H. Thomas Ml; Circulation Man- Kflor —Robert G. Robinson '4L ; Senior Secretary—Ruth Gold idein Ml; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis Ml. Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42, R. Helen Condon '42. Ross B. Lehman '42, William J. MeKnight ’42, Alice M. Murray M 2, Pat Nagelberg M 2. Stauley J. PoKemp* •k*)' M 2, Jeanne C Stiles ’42. • Junior Business Board —Thomas W\ Allison *42, Paul M.. Goldberg M 2. J*m«i E. McCaughey '42. Margaret L. Embury *4?., Virginia Ogden M 2. Fay E. Rees M 2. Ma«a;?ing Editor This Issue Assistant Managing Editor This Lssue JN«‘\vh Editor This Issue. Women's Editor This Issue Assistant Women's Editor This Issue Afttintant Women's Editor This Issue G» aduate Counselor Thursday Morning, March 13, 1941 Move Over, Boys, fere's A Crowd! Him the Draff About two months ago, the College agreed to have the Health Service give preliminary physi cal examinations to students called in the draft. By doing this, it obviated the necessity of students going home to be examined by physicians attached to their local draft boards. Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, director of the College Health Service, was officially desginated as the examining physician. He accepted the appoint ment with the understanding that he would be called upon to- examine students only. A private doctor in the borough had previously been selected io handle iocai draftees. However, this doctor also made an agreement,. It was that he would examine only two men each day. From his viewpoint, he was justified in this policy. He has one of the most lucrative practices in town and sees fit to make the examinations, for ■which he is not paid, only in his spare time. For a while the local doctor was able to make all the examinations necessary. Then there was a sudden rush and the College Health Service was asked to take care of the overflow by making ex aminations for the State College draft board. The number of draftees has continued to increase, how ever, until now the College is examining an av erage of five or six men, not including students, each day. This is nearly three times as many as are being examined by the local doctor, the man originally supposed to do all the work. In an attempt to remedy the situation the local .draft board has obtained the appointment of an other doctor as a qualified examiner. However, this action has fallen short of the desired result because the new examining physician is a part time member of the College staff and makes all his examinations on College time. This work is too much for the already over loaded dispensary staff. It is a hardship on stu dents who must wait even longer than usual to be treated. And, because they can not receive the attention they deserve, it is a hardship on men sent to the dispensary to be examined. We doubt if members of the local draft board realize how the additional work handicaps the College Health Service. We do-not believe that they intentionally throw the burden on the Col iege merely because it is the easiest Iliuig to do. With this in mind, we submit two suggestions which we strongly urge them to consider. L Put in a request to have additional exam-" biers assigned to the State College area. Accord ing to the Selective Service regulations, this can V>e done. It seems like a logical gelation. The >nore examining physicians there are in the bor ough, the fewer examinations must be made at Die dispensary, w 2. Ask the present examiners to resign and. select new men for the positions. Men should <6e Chosen who will have sufficient time to do their share of the work. Men should be chosen who will not make examinations in a manner which will interfere with the essential duties, the College Health Service. The dispensary e^ tSts 'f or the sole benefit of the student body, la treating student cases,-the staff has all, if nr.t more, than it can properly handle. There is Absolutely no reason to give the Health Service cvork which can and should be done else where. —J.A.B, Downtown Office 119-121 South Frasier Sc. Ni’?ht Phone 4372 George Schenkein M l .-..James D. Olkein '43 Richard Baker M 3 Vera L. Kemp Ml Ruth Gerber M 3 .. Edith L. Smith MS Louis K. Bell THE CAMPUSEER iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiin' Best Advice Yei A rascally, insignificant, anonymous germ ap jjeared in the deltachi house last week and promptly sent some six of the brothers scurrying Inf irmary-wa rd. The good doctor Harriet Harry, fearful that the measle-monger might spread, determined to take precautions. Accordingly she buzzed out to said delta chi house last Friday and warned Prexy Jack Thomas as follows: •‘Tell your boys to be sure not to do anything platonic this weekend!” Helen Chiappy, of Ath Hall, has the measles Helen Chiappy does not date any deltachis. •> ? ? 9 9 '? Enticing, Eta? We are indebted to Dr. Dengler, who even of fered to give us the word the Greeks had for it, ■for calling our attention to the following interest ing statement in yesterday's Collegian: “Penn State women may join their College sis ters throughout the nation in preparing to DOFF a uniform and . . . restore the injured to health.” We should be delighted to witness-a demonstra tion of this new treatment. Booster Golyum This week we should like to express approba tion for the following: Bill Bartholomew, who took his medicine grace- fully at the Gridiron Banquet Monday. Our next senior class president. We hope he knocks down as much as Bartholomew did. Jean Lowry '42, for cooperating with the Dies - Committee in exposing a hotbed of fascist ideology and fifth column treachery on our campus. Freddie Rasmussin, who succeeding in depositing his alpha zeta badge on Ruth Pearce, pride of the chi o mansion. Tough luck, George. Sally Miller. KKG, who depledged Sigma Pi. Journ. 68 Biatague Bill Finn: Mr. Gardner, if I sold my picture to the Arrow Shirt Company, could they sell it to Stegmaier's? Voice from back of room: Just Stegmaiers would want it. Apropos Poona Everywhere I go Falling through the air Sifting through my hair TOO DAMN MUCH! (Note—Roethke did NOT write'this.) Cleveland Orchestra Pre-Concert As The Firsl of Our Bi-Weekly Thursday Concerts At 8:15 we present the following recordings of the Cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodzin ski: FINLANDIA Sibelius EIN HELDENLEBEN Richard Strauss SCHEHERAZADE, 4th Movement: “Festival at Bagdad: The Sea.” Rfni^ky-Korsakov UNDER .THE SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE Tschaikovsky Jazz Recital No. 2 I Thttfsday Afternoon, 4:15 ,yg| "Muggsy Spanier Day" | 'SYMPHONY No. 5 Selections Covering His Entire Career, 1926-1938 Comment by Walt Berkov and Bill Lahner THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE 129 W. Beaver Textbooks The Record Shop the daily collegian Mystery Weinberger Loan Fund, Murals (Continued from Page One) 2. Proposed switch of the class of J. 922 funds of $29,000 to the scholarship and student loan fund is sufficient. Only the Board of Trustee’s approval is needed. H. Ridge Riley, director- of College sports publicity and rep resentative of the class of 1932 who donated the Poor mural, said, “My class sponsored the original mural with the idea that other classes would complete the project. A class must finish the mural project, because the. Col lege cannot.” Letters to the Editor — Ex-Collegian Writer Scorns Passive View To the Editor: “Sixty-five per cent of Penn State students believe that the United States will be actively in volved in the war by 1942. but only a minority think America should enter the conflict now.” How charitable of the majority not to think so. The attitude of Penn State’s students as gauged by the Col legian’s survey is significant. If there is any step which brings us closer to war, it is the per sistence of such an attitude. It reminds us of a dying patient lying helplessly and whimpering, “I’m not going to take that medi cine, I’m going to die tomorrow' anyway.” To conquer an entity which we regard with passivity and defeatism, something which sweeps us along like a leaf in a rushing torrent, is an impossibil ity. The attitude of the Penn State student is merely the reflection of the attitude throughout the country. Each is spineless/ each denies the power and freedom of the combined wills of millions of Americans. “Sure, .we’ll be in the war soon, there’s nothing we can do about it.” “I’m not going to take that medicine, I’m going to die tomorrow anyway.” The difference between the two at- t titudes is nil. Let’s get to the point: America today is close to war. It is close to war because it believes that democracy and fascism cannot | exist side by.side; it believes that y the aim of fascism is the destruc- *” tion of democracy; and it believes with all its hearts that aid to' .. Britain is in fact aid to America liefs. dlffiCUlt t 0 COnt6St th ° Se j - Afjfjffffi Despite the fact that we have, ff"” , || underwritten British independ- ** p| ence and victory, however, it is - Where reason and the will exist,* Wi. «Ri there are few, very few, things J • . ‘ inlll| "-4i|j in the world which we can say i |r"l oj : ¥mi ttiifllL. r"si are inevitable. if*«««»» I contend that the only things, ■ ;7rf|§ which will get the United States r f I « T JJ C"-r/:rf| into this war is its will to be[,i v *• V 1. 18- ||| drawn into it. *' - ‘ jf| The Axis does not want to fight ■ » ‘ il us. Italy as a military power is If Top Style , 5# shattered, Germany is occupied || If on all fronts and would surely || £ OllOrin QT j _• |§ regard the entrance of the United || -gmcl Fabrics' ' ’ 111 States into the war as a major | . - • ® tragedy. She is doing all she eafl-p- , : || not to offend us. The brutal and|| . fl indiscriminating action which g it p|f - M marked the last war and which'! ® ; g helped to draw us in is lacking! Vl' 11. now. The Nippons have backed,/ WiPfgS' down time and again in the, i "'"OHIlf /ial ■ Orient in the face of aggressive .y, - '"*[ Anglo-American diplomacy. 4 Japan is wary, afraid. '' Aid to Britain short of. war, 1 yes. Nothing more is needed. The vO " I Empire’s manpower is untouched. ysXcluStve Wl//1, \^s-. v Its fleet is intact. Its air power in- . ~ ' creases and is in evidence daily. Our Complete Spring Lind of.. I repeat, the United States will TIES. SHIMS. SLACKS and not get into this’war unless it Awa S u wants to. Even Pennsylvania’s own _Jr George Earle, the William Tell of the whiskey bottle, could not make it otherwise. Sincerely, , , ; — 7 „ ~ Emanuel Roth ’4O Opposite Old Maiti - Slatf 1 College Ridgefield, Conn. ~ j -—— THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1941 iiHiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiitiiiiiiiimimiii (AMPUS CALENDAR:^ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiif^ TODAY Le Circle Francais Club, mainr: lounge of Women’s Building, 8 p.m. Please note'change of meetr ing place. PSCA’ Seminar, Hugh Beaver' ' Room, 7 p.m. Pocono and Wash ington Conference reports. Student Handbook business..' staff, 304 Old Main, 7 p.m. All-College elections, first floor • lounge, Old Main. ■ r Lecture on Christian Science by Mr. Peter B. Higgins of. Seattle, Wash.,’ 121'Sparks, 8 p.m.'. Student Handbook editorial staff, 318 Old Main,. 7 p.m._ Kappa Phi Kappa, 405 Old Main, 5 p.m. Portfolio, 416 Old Main, 7 p.m. . Jazz recital, College Book. Store, 4 p.m. TOMORROW Friday Evening Service, Hillel' Foundation, 7:30 p.m. Purim 'quiz. Pennsylvania State , Debaters Convention, 121 Sparks,'B p.m. (INEMANIA “Tobacco Road” the : stage por 'trait of a backwoods. clan: from the “dirty white trash” .caste .has' finally been transposed, to .the screen, and will appear •at the. Cathaum today, tomorrow,, and Saturday. .. . t Although still definitely.,adult program fare, the film transla tion, as compared with the orig inal profane stage depiction -of the “Lester” tribe and its..-col lective woes, wants, and wicked ness, is almost Sunday school fare. romm’l
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