PAGE TWO HIE DAILY gmiLEGII/Ai "For A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to the Penn ' State o)Ke.;i*a, established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the xejjular Coljege year by the students of The Pennsylvania fixate College. Entered as second-class matter July 6 t 1934 at the post-office at State College. Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879. Editor , Bus. and Adr. Mgr- Adam Sxnysec MCC Lawrence Driever *4E K'lilDiim mitl Business Office 8'.3 Old Main Bldg t'nj.-.j 71L Women's Editor—Veru L. Kemp r 4i ; Managing Editor ~ ficburt I-L. Lu:j-_ '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters Nv j .. - Editor William E. Fowler *4l; Feature Editor— 33.1ward J. K. McLorie *4l ; Assistant Managing Editor—Bay rti\? Bloom '4l; Women’s Managing Editor—Arita I>. Hefferun Ml ; Women’s Feature Elitor—Edythe B. Rickel '4l. Credit Manager—John H. Thomas '4l; Circulation Man rtp.er—Robert G Robinson ’4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth. Gold *4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie K. Lewis Ml. Ni-mibt-r iPusoe'afed Collegiate PVe>'> Distributor of Gjt!e6ia?e Di6esl Junior Editorial BoarJ—John A. Baer *42. It. Helen Gordon '42, Ross B. Lehman '42, William J. McKnight *42, Alice M. Murray ’42. Pat Nagelberg *42, Stauley J. PoKutnp no; '42, Jeanne C- Stiles *42. - Junior Business Board —Thomas W., Allison *42, Paul M. Goldberg ’42, James E. McCaughey *42. Margaret L>. Embury M 2, Virginia Ogden *42. Fay E. Rees *42. lAepftiiatSfeTfo i»oi% national advertisim^ National Advertising Service, Im«\ College Publishers Representative - 420 Madison Ave. New York. Chicago • u-jjrc* • log angele6 • San francigco Managing Editor This Issue John A. Baer '42 Assistant Managing Editor This l*<ue David Samuels '43 Hews Editor This issue Robert E. Schooley *43 Women’s Issue Editor- AMlstant Women’s Elitor This Issue Louis H. Bell Graduate Counselor Friday Morning, March 14, 1941 fFrafernifies Can Save Homey lsy Miring k Good Manager Last week this column began a discourse on fraternity management that the editor personally considers one of the most important problems posed by Collegian this year. Briefly. Collegian’s contention was that frater nity bills are unnecessarily high because the )louses have their finances managed by amateurs. Amateurs. Collegian contends, waste great amounts of money learning to be professionals. Collegian knows a fraternity to prove its con tention that houses could offer their members just as much and charge from $5O to $lOO a year less apiece if they were better managed. •In getting this better management, fraternities would not be sacrificing their living standards. Collegian does not mean this. Better management will make the same high standards available at less cost. One house this year is showing a $2,500 profit on the same income with which it used to break even. It is hardly coincidence that its treasurer is a high-ranking commerce and finance student and spent several years out of college doing ac- counting work. It seems to CoLiegian that fraternities could well afford to pay out a sizeable lump of money to get better management. After ali, to pay even $l,OOO for a man who could save a house $2,500 would be an advantage, $1,500 worth. But $l,OOO is an unnecessary figure. For a lot less fraternities can get the expert help they need. If 10 fraternities would .go together in hiring one xnan, they could get him—at $2,500 —for $250 apiece. Certainly, one man could and would do that job for that price. His management potentialities are multi-fold: Besides showing each house how to do its own buying better, he could serve as a buying agency —saving for all houses by quantity buying. With a reasonably intimate knowledge of the 10 houses under his wing, one man could conduct a regular audit of the books and keep a close check ion house expenditures in that manner. He could serve as a strong arm in the collection of delinquent bills. To a great many fraternities this alone would represent an increased income of several hundred dollars every year. As buyer and I'epresentative of 10 fraternity bouses such an agent would be a strong bargain ing agency as well as a strong buyer. Merchants would listen to this one man much sooner than they will listen to the agent of just one fraternity. As a food buyer of both food and supplies for 10 houses he would be able to get much better bargains and discounts than any one fraternity could get. This, ■;>: course, is even more than improving administration of each house's affairs It is new hut desirable, jgeney. •b .r.s j n 3 fc ;tir Downtown Office 119-121 South Frasier St. Night Phone 4372 Alice M. Murray '42 -Jeanne E. Ruess *43 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!ii Nibbling M Ibe News with ROBERT LANE (The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily re flect the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.) l!l!lllllllllllllllllllllli:illllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllHllllllllliimilll!!l' Shades of Machiavelli The writing of the man he idolized, and whose principles he practiced devoutly, are returning in biood to haunt Premier Benito Mussolini today. In the fifteenth century Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a book entitled “The Prince.” In his dis sertation he outlined the course which ,11 Duce has followed religiously. But Machiavelli warned his followers that they who practice its precepts are courting disaster. The great Italian statesman stated, “He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves and peace brings them to the gallows.” Machiavfelli's true test tor immortality was that he realized that the rulers who practiced his false precepts were eventually siated for destruction because of a theoretical philosophy. ■ Mussolini has practiced a false philosophy. That is the reason he is in Albania today; to bolster the morale and prestige of the Italian troops. II Duce is reported to have ordered his Fascist generals to “do something’ before next Saturday. Oddly enough. Saturday is the date scheduled- for the return of the Premier to Rome, at which time he will give the Italian people a report on the war. Any news at the present time will be good news f to Italian people, providing it doesn’t list the cas ualties. Mussolini ordered the heaviest Italian attack of the war, but it met with failure because the Greeks “beat them to the punch.” Fascist counter-attack resulted in strmany deaths that the •stretcher bearers were unable to remove the vic tims from the field of slaughter. The result could aptly be termed the consequence of “doing some thing,” if it was wrong Italy's leader is desperate. He has sacrificed 130,000 men in his Albanian campaign. Saturday he will return to Rome and he would like to report an Italian victory, regardless of the unnecessary loss of life. Italy has been thrown into' a war for which she. was not ready. Peace will bring Italian soldiers hack home who will tell stories that heretofore have been censored. Mussolini cannot afford this, Italv must continue fighting. With every Italian defeat another shovel of dirt is removed for Mussolini’s grave. Italy’s capitu lation, or peace at the present time, will mark the completion of. the tomb for Machiavelli’s most ar dent disciple. It’s die Comer THE DAILY COLLEGIAN unusual Will Sing Ai Hop The quartet pictured above will entertain at Engineer’s Hop in the Armory from 9 p.m. to midnight tonight. Left 'to right, they are Jimmy Leyden, Jackie Reese, Bill Bogar .and Bill Nes bitt. Parsons, loiisey Named Regular 2nd Lieutenants Albro L. Parsons Jr. 41, and Cadet Col. Thomas G. Tousey ’4l, have been recently advised by Third Corps Headquarters of their recommendation for com missions as 2nd Lieutenants in the Regular Army. Another advanced ROTC stu dent, William E. Park ’4J, was selected as a third alternate should any of the seven drop out. f s ! nttsswl l^ Ia the BtT i>' 5 ' < ’“ C! “uUl'o“ so "* 0i ~.t ie a;sin k “ ,ed , a.wus'w” I ,^. „mie uecded. Stv o£Westetn^ t andbuy i n g m*i»8 ''>' e^ill « dumb^ ‘Vr Zoi^ M ““ “***' .„ FRIDAY, -MARCH T 4, 1941 CAMPUSCALENDAR ' TODAn?.-i -3 Sophomore editorial -hoard • of"'' Collegian, Room 312 Old Main,;; 4:15 p.m. : i - _ ,i £ No engineerings lecture. -Next : one will he held- M&rch 21. Friday evening service,: HiHel Foundation, 7:30 p.m, Ski'Club; Room 318''Cilci' Main, 7 p.m. ■ - Engineering Hop, Armory; 9 p.m. to midnight. All-College Dancing cla s s , Armory, 7 p.m. Engineering Open House, 2-10 p.m. - Penh State Riding Club, Stock Judging Pavilion, 7 p.ni. Monday for all those interested. "Bring class schedules.- New Psychology Prof. Dr. Richard W. Husband of the University of Wisconsin lias"'beer.. appointed visiting assistant pro-- fessor of psychology in the Col- lege Extension Service. He' will / be associated with the foreman training course of the engineering-; defense program. : ... 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