The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, March 19, 1941, Image 2
PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Established L94-')„ Successor to tae Penn State Collegian, established 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1887 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania iSlata College. Entered as .second-class matter July 5, 1934 Hi-the iKwt-o-ffiee at State College, Pa., under the act o-f March 8» 1870 Editor _ _ Bus. and Adv. Mgr, Adam StKywc "41 ’ Lawrence Driever "41 JOdilotitu and Business Ot’Cn:u 813 Old Mai;i Bid;: 1*1131!“ 711 rime’s Editor L. Kemp ’4l; Managing Editor Robert 11. L’>n-‘ '4l; Sports Editor —Richard C. Peters N n vr Fdiinr VVtlliam E. Fowler *4l: Feature Editor — Kdward J. K. MoLorie *4L; Assistant Managing Editor—Bay- Hid Bloom *4l; Women's Managing Editor —Arita L. Kefferan Ml ; Women’s Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel ’4l. Credit Manager—-John H. Thomas '4l; Circulation Man ngor—Robert G. Robinson ’4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth Gold i.l.-in ’4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis ’41.. JlS'snti3 l-3i» NATO'S**. AOvSRTJ SltS'J 13 ‘ Natiiamall Advertising Service, fac, College Publishers Representative M/ADtisois Avis. New Yor*<. sh. >’ * u.jirji* • i.oj /viatui* Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer *42, 3.. Koler. Gordon ’42, Ross B. Lehman ’42. William J. McKnight ’42, Alice M. Murray '42, Pat Nagelberg *42. Stanley J. PoKemp- DO 1 *42, Jeanne C. Stiles '42. Junior Business Board —Thomas W. Allison ’42. Paul M- Goldberg ’42. Jama* E. MeCaughey '42. Margaret I*. Embury *42, Virginia Ogden ’42. Fay E. R-jes '42. Managing El-tor ThL» Issue )ycws Editor This Issue Assistant M*> noting Editor This [ssn- Woman’s Editor This Issue Assistant V'omea*.s E-litor This Issue Gnuluate Ownrie'oir Wednesday Morning, March 19, 1941 Tte iDafof Code Again —rWhifher Bound! Another violation of the fraternity dating code, the second this year, has refocused attention on IFC. This idea of this being the second violation ibis year should bring a big snicker from the fra ternity section. Most fraternity men would esti mate the code violations at upwards, of 100—and Only two reported. The present violation, timed as it is, may be important. It comes less than a week after the president of IFC urged fraternities to cooperate in enforcing the dating code and warned that a new drive would be launched against violaters. Perhaps this is the new drive. Collegian hopes so. IFC’s interest may in some measure be influ enced by the recent activity of women’s organiza tions on the matter of fraternity dating. Dean Ray called a meeting of sorority presidents to dis cuss dating In fraternities. WSGA Senate last week urged alt coeds to cooperate in living up to the code Behind these moves were vague hints that perhaps the women'might take matters in their own hands if IFC continued to flop. It is a popular misconception thai-the Interfra tc-mity Dating Code forbids all drinking in fra ternity houses. Actually, it is directed only against drinking with mixed groups. Mixed drinking and the practice of allowing women to stay in fraternity houses after hours or to allow them in rooms other than the social rooms, are the most objectionable fraternity of fenses. They are also the most common. Both houses which have been punished for code violations had parties in which only a few of their members were involved. Yet, to bring full en forcement of the code, the whole house has had to suffer in each case. Collegian is not suggesting that the whole house should not suffer. Being practical, that is the ' best way to encourage houses to break up their parties. Usually each fraternity has only a few heavy drinkers, ardent enough to break,whatever code h; set up. Three-quarters of the members of each bouse either don’t drink at all or drink so seldom (hat they would never violate the code if the de cision were theirs. A couple of good organizers can get a 'Whole bouse in trouble, though, and it’s about time the fraternity boys realize this and clamp down when one or two of their boys set out to start a party for which the whole house will eventually be ac countable. bans. Mm The Mural Word that $54,000 Js about to be converted to additional loan and scholarship funds indicates that one hungry mouth is about to have a feeding that will take care of it for awhile. With the loan fund thus increased, there is more reason than ever to begin work for the mural, which the sen ior class vote indicates is desired by almost as many students as desire the loan fund. That 247 to 242 vote is important, not from the sour grapes standpoint, but because it indicates the consider able interest the student body has taken in a strict ly cultural subject. . Downtown Office 113-121 South Fra&ier Sc. Nisht Phone 4372 -Stanley J. PoKempner "42 Dominick L. Gol:ib ’4i .Richard A. Baker *43 .Jeanne C- Stiles '42 LouLse M. Fuo?.? "4$ .Louu CL B«I! IIII(llilllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllimiIIIIIIII!!IIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIII!llllllll! a a LEAN hungry look (Tfiia opinions expre&sed in this column do not necessarily re fleet the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.) (Il(lllllllllllll!llllll!llilllll||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||il|||||||||||||||llll!lllllllllltl The other evening as we danced barefoot upon tile misty greensward behind the cattle barns we were approached by a leprechaun who asked ,us in a very decent manner whether "or not we had written Beethoven’s Fifth. Naturally we knew as well as anyone there, and there must have been several hundred of us boys of- Putman Hall, that we hadn't written Beethoven's Fifth at all. We said as much and went on with our festivities which consisted of some routine procedures and eating with the older children down in the base ment of the Home Economics Building which is not, as many people are wont to think, a bad place. As a matter of fact Ludwig van Beethoven who had come in later with a friend from the so ciology department with whom he was discussing housing trends in industrial Milwaukee, said just that. ‘‘The Home Economics Building is not a bad place." are his exact words, if you must know. And so we all fell to laughing and presently began, a vicious little session of double solitaire. As might be expected this brought up the subject of modeni poetry as it was related to reality and it was generally agreed that so far as we were con cerned Milton was absolutely correct. Since we bad neglected to bring along a volume-of Milton’s works we were pretty much at a loss as to what to do. Not a whit dismayed we called forth from our midst a gay fellow who was Hell on the glocken spiel and then joy reigned supreme. How that chap could play a glockenspiel . . . gentlemen, hush! We turned to a friend of ours who had been with us in the grim retreat from holy Mos cow and together we hummed a few stirring pas-- sages from the March Slav, so deeply were we moved. It was bitterly cold and our feet, wrapped as they were in potato sacks, left ghastly bloody prints as we walked guard there in the snows of Valley Forge. Heroic times, we shall not look upon their like again. Shall we ever forget that great day when Justice Mcßeynolds, in a dissent ing opinion, voiced the will of the people and, in words that will thunder down the halls of the years, said, “This sort of thing has got to stop?” Hand us our long rifle Lissie,. Jackson’s at Win chester and Patterson holds the upper Shenan doah. Afl through that night the trains crawled through Mannassas Gap while our troop of Black Horse demonstrated before the Yankee outguards. And then finally Appomattox where our only words to General Grant were a request that our men be given rations and permitted to retain their mounts for the spring plowing. Then, as suddenly as one might say Jack- Rob inson, we found (incidentally it takes only one and one half seconds to say Jack Robinson as a scientific colleague of ours once proved by a com plicated mathematical formula which involves only three right triangles) that it was dawn . . . the cock had crowed and the eastern sky was dimly grey. The dew lay silvery: a crystal laugh as a golden-haired peasant girl commenced her morning’s chores. A shepherd’s pipes sang, high on the gj-im face of the old Gebraunshclickeitberg which towered over the tiny village. In the cav alry garrison reveille sounded, and the patrol of hussars that watched the border trotted out spark ling in their uniforms. The old Emperor Franz Josef turned to us, excusing himself from the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whom we later messed up at Sarajevo after the low fellow had beaten us at whist), and said in a low voice, “The lights are-going out all over Europe.” Viscount Grey copped the idea several months after this, , but everyone knows that that was only another example of British imperialism. With a last look at the dawn’s beauty we returned to our lonely grave hi Transylvania, carefully replacing the ' wooden spike which had been driven through our bosom several years previously when we got a bit out of hand. Emotional upset causes more student failures in college than either academic incompetence or lazi ness in learning subject matter. That is the opin ion of Dr. Gwlym Isaac, dean of the department of philosophy and student counselor at Indiana State Teachers College. Students are more dis turbed by family troubles than by any other wor ries, including their own love affairs, and the grades of many good students have nose-dived when their parents at home were breaking, up. Dr. Isaac asserts. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN —Cassius $54,200 Gift (Continued from Page One) 1920 and 1922 is still in the pro posal stage with no definite in tention filed with the College. Present loan funds operating on income from invested prin- Name 1. Andrew Carnegie (Men Only) 2. Mary Beaver White (Women Only) 3. James A. Beaver (Men Only) 4. William H. Stone . .. 5. York County . Penn State 6. Class of 1937 Uninvested loan funds (Re volving). Repayments determine amount in fund. Loans range from $l5 to $lOO. with average about $5O. Amt. loaned last collegiate year $1,750.00 1,570.00 425.00 Name 1. Trustees ... 2. Faculty ..... 3. Engineering 4. Alumni Club (Women Only) 5. Boucke (Economics Graduate Students) . 65.00 6. 2-Year Agriculture 'Class 7. Class of 1909 .., 8. Farm and Home 9. Forestry Depart- ment 10. Class of 1898 11. Philotasian . 12. American ■ Agriculturist 13. Tau. Beta Pi College Probe Enters Senate HARRISBURG, Mar. 18—The Moul Bill to investigate the Soil Conservation Board • and the Pennsylvania State College Ex tension Service passed the House today by a vote of 124 to 71 and entered the Senate for further action. Passage was preceded by an hour of debate on a motion of Rep. Ellwood J. Turner (Rep., Delaware) to recommit the bill until “both sides of the contro versy have been heard.” The mo tion was defeated, 124 to 78. The bill would revise the law passed in 1937 to establish state cooperation in the federal soil conservation program; would ap propriate $57,500 for administra tive expenses and would reor ganize the Soil Conservation Board. Under the reorganization plan, G. Albert Stewart, the Pennsyl vania State College experiment station director, would be re moved. Stevenson W. Fletcher, dean of the College’s School of Agriculture, would serve on the reorganized board. All appropriations to the Col lege are being withheld until final action is taken on the bill. WEDNESDAY, 'Mk^H',-i9^J.94t'' : CAMPUS CALENDAR - IMA. Central Council/Room ' 318 Old Main, 10 p.m. . - Ag..Ec Club' meeting-ii Sigman Thi Alpha, 7:30 ,-.r> Ag. Student Council, Room 418 Old Main, 7:30 p.m.:.---' ■ Student Union dance, Armory, 4 p.m. Principal $28,750.00 Co-Editibn, Room 318 ■ Old • Main, 7:45 p.m. American Society of Civil Em-- • gineers, Room 107 Main Enginl ’ eering, 7 p.m. R. R. Cleland, State- . College borough engineer,. will'- -' talk on “Water Supply.” - ' • John G. Good .will lecture on “Pennsjdyania Police Problems” ' ' in Room 124 Sparks Building;'4 p.m. 27,718,88 18,599.84 500.00 500.00 566.02 Girls interested in professional' instruction in bridge, Room '3,, White Hall, 6:30 p. m. PSCA Speakers Committee, Hugh Beaver Room, 7 p. ni' PSCA Cabinet, Hugh Beaver Room, 8 p. m. 1 Panhellenic. Council meeting scheduled for tonight has been postponed until next^week. 530.00 All women interested in secur ing camp counsellor’s positions for next-summer should-see Miss Lucey immediately. 50.00 245.00 150.00 TOMORROW Grange,. Room 405 Old Main,. 7 p.m. - _ Student Handbook editorial staff, Room 318 Old Main, 7:15 p.m. 250.00 225.00 50.00 Liberal Arts Student Council,- Room. 305 Old Main, 7:15 p.m." ' Student Tribunal, Room 302- Old Main, 7:30 p.m. Cwen meeting in .Miss Steven son’s apartment, Grange Dormi tory, 5 p.m. 100.00 400.00 $5,820.00 Conscription Bill Change Urged By Convention A proposal to change the con scription bill when it expires in' 1945, so that every boy would be sent for a year of military train ing immediately upon gradua- • tion from high school rose as the main issue from the sixth annual : Penn State Debaters Convention Friday and Saturday. The general assembly made one exception to the bill change/ favoring the exemption of men" planning to take a four-year col lege course in ROTC.. CLASSIFIED SECTION FOR RENT—Single 1 room for man or woman, private home, quiet, ■no other- roomers. Dial 4112. ltchl9D nmcc Wanted and i Offered ±1: R.W. to Syracuse, N. Y.,. Fri —. -March 21 or' 28, Call Marcia, s Women’s Bldg., 3rd east. P.W. Mt. Pleasant, Greensbtirg;-. vicinity. L—Sat", ret. Sun. CaO.-- 1 .”-. Fred, 3418. : -P.W. Phila., Lv. Fri. 4 p.m.'-finr., Jackson, 2271.. --—Jr :