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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.
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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.
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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.
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Downtown Office
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Alice M. Murray '42
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with ROBERT LANE
(The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily re
flect the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.)
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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.
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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.
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FRIDAY, -MARCH T 4, 1941
CAMPUSCALENDAR
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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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STATE—
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