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43(-t.l>o College Entered <u deoond-elu-s matter July B, 1934
the at 'State College, Pa., under the art, of
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Editor Bus. and Ad<r. Mgr.
/idum Smywse '4l Lawrence Driever '4l
K'Mo'iai aml Biminmii Ollnje
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r N' i v«i ti or —Wil I+am E. Fowler ’4l; Feature Editor—
*> w ‘r. ri4 kV'Erici'- '4i ; Assistant Manai'in- Editor—Bay-
Bloom '4l; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. HeEterir
-41.; Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel *4l.
Credit Manajrer-Mohn K. Thomas '4l; Circulation Man
nitol-—Robert G. Robinson '4l; Senior Secretary—P.uth GoM
bfem '4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis '4l.
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Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42 R. Helen.
Gordon ’42. Rosa B. Lehman '42. William J. McKoight '42,
Alice M. Murray '42. Pat NSgelberg '42. Stanley J. PoKemp
•urr 42. Jeanne C. Stiles '42.
Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison '42, Pan! M.
Goldberg '42. James E. McCauiihey '42. Margaret L. Emburr
42, Virginia Ogden. '42. Fay E. Rees '42.
Managing Editor This Issue George Schehkein '4l
Aiuuutant Managing Editor.. Donald W. Davis, Jr.. '42
Mown Editor This Ensue . David Samuels *42
"Womens Editor This Issue , R. Heien Gorilon '42
Assistant Women's Editor This Issue Ruth Gerber '42
Graduate Counselor
Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1941
Completing- The 'Mural
If three students out of 489 who voted for the
senior cl3ss gift had changed their minds, the
$5,000 to be given away by the class would have
none to murals instead of a loan fund.
How that the loan fund is provided for, let’s
find a way to take care of the murals.
Collegian before the election did not feel the
desire to take sides because ti was (and still is)
satisfied that both gifts were deserving and met
the important requirements of (1) being within
viuige of the class funds, and (2) being provided
with, proper and prompt execution.
The closeness of the vote indicates, however,
the interest students are taking in the mural. It
would be unfortunate if the opinions of three stu
dents should have determined that the Penn. State
mural was never to be completed.
This, of course, is not in the minds of those men
who worked for years to have the . mural started
and are now working to have it completed. They
plan to have it completed some way, but how?
Mr. Poor will not always be available to Penn
State. By waiting too long, the College may lose
him altogether.
The removal of the senior gift, took away the
most immediate prospect of having the mural
completed. There are other ways available, cer
tainly, but none of them are as close at hand as
was the senior gift.
The one best prospect Collegian sees for having
Poor continue his mural now is tao have him ap
pointed to the College faculty as an artist in resi
d.ence.
This would cost the College his salary for two
or three years and that’s all. Collegian thinks
that investment would be a good one from several
standpoints: (1) it would add to the faculty an
other and very attractive famous name; (2) it
would increase the prestige of the College with its
students and with outsiders; and (3) it would pro
vide painlessly for the completion of a project
which is one of the most outstanding the College
has undertaken in .the cultural field. A true uni
versity should contribute to as well as pass down
culture. Penn State has done little enough of the
former.
Whether or not the College decides to adopt this
-plan depends on whether it thinks the $lO,OOOO or
$115,000 would be better invested in Poor than it
would in some other enterprise. The College is
never without a pocket from which it can pay for
•something really necessary. Collegian thinks the
mural is necessary enough and it believes further
that a great many stundents and faculty agree
“During the past two decades our universities
have suffered from a negative complex; our facul
ties have analyzed issues and balanced factors;
•ft -,y have exposed the follies and the vices of his
torical figures and movements; they have not
emerged with a positive philosophy to which stu
dents and public might attach themselves. There
justice in the complaint of the undergraduate
that’ his academic experience had not provided
him with a faith.” President Charles Seymour
of Yale University paints to a fault in the higher
educational structure.
Downtown Office
110-121 South Ffaaier St.
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(Thu opinions expressed in' thi? column da not necessarily m-
fleet the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.)
1 Draftee’s Lament
Dear Fellows
This army life is great stuff. It hasnt’ been
bad so far, but I never know what I have to do
next. I came to Fort Meade about midnight Tues
day. When I arrived I was given a meal and then
put to bed. The sergeant tucked me in about one
o’clock and everything was lovely.
After I got in bed I closed my eyes, rolled over
once, and it was time to get up (6:30). I missed
the freshmen annoying me. I was going to tell
them to put me down for eleven o'clock, but I
thought maybe they wouldn’t appreciate that.
After I got up I got washed and made my bed
according to army regulation. I’m telling you,
they are damned particular about how you dress
up those cots. You can’t have a wrinkle in it. I
was stiff all over from sleeping on the damn thing
—the first time I ever got stiff sleeping.
Well, after I finished playing with my little cot,
it was time for breakfast. The food is very good,
you can get all you want. The only trouble is that
they sock it on your, plate and by the time you get
to the end of the line, the plate looks like a dish
of Thrivo dog food. The cup for water or coffee
is deep enough to wash your feet in and the coffee
is so strong it picks you up and carries you away.
After breakfast we had to take classification
tests and were then given tags to hang around our
necks —that’s in case you get lost you can walk up
to someone and say “Here I am. How do 1 get to
where I should be?’’
This morning we were up again at 6:30, nursed
our beds into readiness and were off to breakfast.
After breakfast we had a half hour of calisthenics.
I really didn’t need the exercise, but I did it. Af
ter the exercise we had a little drill for a few
hours, ten men to a sergeant. Ten minutes of
drill and he had me showing the other nine men
hew to execute the commands. He said (quote)
“This fellow had only ten minutes drill and see
bow he executes ■ the commands, you bunch of
lame brains.” Who was I to tell him I had had
ROTC? He didn’t ask me.
After dinner we had company drill for a few
more hours and then a lecture on sex, something
very interesting. We were then read the laws of.
the army. They did a good job on those laws —
they didn’t forget a thing. After we heard the
laws it was time for a rest. I rested until supper
time and after supper began to write letters. I
go on guard duty tomorrow from 3 a. m. to 6 a. m.
Excuse the pencil, but you can’t buy a hell of a
lot of. ink for $2l a month.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY
Collegian senior
board. Important.
Old Main, 8 p. m.
Collegian freshman editorial
candidates. Room 312 Old Main,
7 p. m. •
Collegian junior editorial
board. Room 313 Old Main, 4
p. m.
Informal history meeting,
Room 305 Old Main, 7 p. m. Dr.
Pundt will lead a discussion on
“The Far East.”
Student Union dance, Armory,
4 p. m.
PSCA Freshman Council dance
committee, Room 304 Old Main,
4 pi m.
PSCA Forty Forum and-Fresh
man Council joint meeting to
hear Miss Eunice King of the
Student Volunteer Movement, 7
p. m.
PSCA World Reconstruction
Seminar, Home Economics Audi
torium, 8 p. m. Speaker: Dr.
Ernst Meyer, professor at Buck
nell U. and former member of
German embassy staff in Wash
ington.
Ag Ec Club meets at Sigma
Phi Alpha, 7:30 p. m. Dr. R. A.
butcher will speak.
Student-Union Dance, Armory,
4 p. m.
American Society of Civil En
gineers, Room 107 Main Engin
eering, 7 p. m. R. R. Cleland,
State College borough engineer,
will talk on “Water Supply."
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INFIRMARY USES
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A checkup last night revealed
that 14 students are confined in
the College Infirmary. They are
Laurance Lightbody ’43, Leon
ard I. Leventhal ’44,- Howard E.
Kugel ’44, German measles; John
M. Graff ’43, George E. Espy ’43,
Virginia M. Seltzer ’43, Norman
H. Gnagey ’44, mumps; Robert
Mezey ’42, N. Loreen Hughes ’44,
Janice M. Owen '4l, Martha
Jayne,, graduate, Malcolm S.
Weir ’43, Alan I. Brunstein ’44,
observation-; Martin H. Fritch
’42, grippe.
Glee Club Leaves -
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after the concert the Glee Club
will leave for New Scott High
School in East Orange, New Jer
sey, where they will give a con
cert sponsored by the Northern
New Jersey Alumni.
The last concert of the trip will
be given in the Grand Ball Room
of the Hotel New Yorker at 8:30
Friday evening under the aus
pices of the New York City
Alumni. There is a possibility
that the Glee Club may broad
cast on the Fred Waring program.
The singers.will leave New York
City at 8:30 a.m. Saturday for
State College.
Samuel. Gallu ’4O will accom
pany the club as. tenor soloist and
Andrew Szekely ’43 will be the
piano soloist.
Students making the trip are:
First tenors—Richard Bittner
’4l, Hartwell Blake, graduate,
Irwin Curry ’43, Richard Eckert
’4l, Arden Emerick ’4l, Robert
Frank ’44, Harold Hablett ’42,
William Lundelius ’43, James
McA-dam ’42, Edward Roberts '44,
Arthur Semes ’4l, and Henry
Simon ’4l;
Smokey.
Second tenors—Boyd Bell ’42,
William Christoffers ’43, Garth
Dietrick ’42, Alfred Gilbert ’42,
Les Heienyi ’4l, William Kirk
patrick ’4l, Herbert Osmun ’4l,
and Harry Vosburg ’43.
Baritones Samuel Crabtree
’4l, Harold Farver ’44, John
Harkins ’4l, James Leyden ’42,
Jack Mahoney ’42, William Min
shall ’43, William Nesbitt '42,
Augustus Swope '42, and Albert
Zimmer ’42.
Basses Harold Doran ’42,
George Dorranee ’44, Kenneth
Farver *4l, George Halbig ’4l,
George Kline ’42, Jack McHugh
’4l, Walter Polak ’43, Robert
Sera ting ’4l, Andrew Szekely
'43, and Richard Vollmer ’42.
editorial
Room 313
TOMORROW
TUESDAY, NtARCH IS,
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Nibbling l
At The News
With ROBERT LANE
(The opinions expressed ;in. column -
do not necessarily reflect lidit&fiiEFL
- Policy of The Daily Collegian}-tr T
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Berlin Signs A (30)
Judging from - recent difficult- ..
ties of the 30 American: corre-.
sponefents in Berlin, an R.A.F. j
raid must be a pleasant relief-• in -
comparison to the Hell that--for
eign newspapermen are enduring..
in Germany these days. ,
The arrest of Richard Hottetlet '
of the United Press on. an. espU.:
onage charge in Berlin on:.-Sat-;...
urday has been the most brazen.-::
act yet committed by the Nazi;.-:
Gods.' In the past when a cor- ■
respondent’s -pen dripped ink- -
about something which was sup-...
posed to be a secret, he was
promptly ejected from_ Germany:
The Gestapo packed his baggage..
for him and escourted the cul
prit to the German border. ~
Such cases are numerous in-the: v
righteous Reich. Beach Conger.)
and . Ralph Barnes . of. the -New
York Herald Tribune, and vet
eran Ottp.Tolischus of the New ...
York Times discovered that the’,
quickest way to get across the"'
German boundary was to pub
lish facts about the dealings of 1
Mr. Hitler and his colleagues.
However, Hotiellef has en
• countered a different fate. Early
Saturday morning six: pf the Ges-.
tapo arrived at the writer’s room'.'
in Berlin and forcibly.requested. :
his presence at police' "headquar— :
ters. At present he is confined
in one of the modern Nazi hoose
gows pending "S hearing....
The most interesting- story,
which has developed out. of de- -
tention of Hottetlet concerns a •
plumber who visited the corre
spondents room to fix the sink.
On meeting the Gestapo, : the
craftsman glanced at t&e.rsink, -
which was overflpv/iiig t -: like " .
Water over a dam, and faster ■
than it was possible"" t<7Say~Heil
without the Hitler, the plumber
disappeared.
Any doubt that ever existed
concerning the feeling— of-jthe
German officials-tore arcfc:-the
United .States has been dispelled
by the circumstances .yvhjch.LSur
rounded Hottetlet’s - arrest.':' ?To
say that it is now outrighly an
tagonistic, would be putting.it
mildly.
From the entire affair one-fact
is self-evident, the days of fpr
eign correspondents liVßerliirare'
numbered. The time is rapidly
approaching when they will be.
handed a prepared release? each
day. and that will be' all they
will be permitted to send to. the;
United States.