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TIE WILY COLLEGIAM
"Far A Better Penn State"
JSid-'iblLshed 1940. Successor to the 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
tltoto College Entered as second-class matter July T>, 1934
the post-office at State College. Pa., under the act of
Man*. 8. J.f179
Editor _ L Bus. and Adv. Mgr..
Adam. Sir,yaffle "41 Lawrence Briefer "41
aud Business Office
813 Old Main Bid#
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Womcn\e Eililnr Vo r a L. Kemp '4l; Managing Editor
RoUrrt It. Lnnc '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters
Fdilor —William E. Fowler *4l; Feature Editor—
JDdward J. K. McCone *4l; Assistant Managing Editor—Bay
tod Bloom '4l: Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. Kefferar.
*4) ; Women's Feature Editor —Edythe B. Rickel *4l.
Credit Manager-—John K. Thomas ‘4l; Circulation Man
—Robert G- Robinson '4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth. Gold
dfin ‘4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis '41,.
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Junior Editorial Board —John A. Baer ’42, R. Helen
Cordon *42. Ross B. Lehman *42, William J. MeKnight '42,.
AUce M. Murray ’42, Pat Nagelberj '42, Stanley J. PotCemp
•K*r *42. Jeanne C. Stile* '42-
Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison '42, Paul StL
Goldberg *42, James E. McCaughey '42. Margaret L Embury
Vi minis. Ogden '42* Fay E. Ree? *42.
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Gvflduate Counselor
Wednesday Morning, March 26, 1941
Fifty per cent of the senior class wants Henry
Vtunaum Poor placed on the College faculty until
he can complete his Old Main Mural.
Wanted: /Am (Organizer
The idea of a cooperative fraternity buying plan
j.;. gaining in favor with fraternity men As evi
denced by the Interfratemity Council president’s
endorsement last week.
An' idea which has been discussed for a long
lime, it has been allowed to lay idle until recently.
And every day that it continues idle, fraternity
men are failing to get their full money's worth, at
a rate of something like 25 cents a day!
After an inspection of the possibilities Of the
plan in one fraternity house and a glance at what
other colleges have done with it, Collegian is con
vinced that Penn State men need only to under
stand the plan to be sold on it. Towards that end,
it is planning 3 series of explanatory articles to
begin soon.
Meanwhile it, is time for fraternity leaders to
i.)i ink seriously about the plan and the possibilities
of organizing it. The first thing that needs to be
clone is for someone to be placed in charge. '
Desirably, this man should be appointed by IFC
because l.hat organization’s sponsorship would lend
responsibility to the plan.
Desirably, too, he should be a volunteer who
would hove the interest of the plan at heart. For
this plan to be worked out will be a hard job and
enthusiasm will be a great asset to whoever tackles
it.
Collegian does not think it necessary or even
desirable that all fraternities should go in on the
plan the first, year. It would rather see a group of
nbout ten contribute $250 apiece toward hiring a
man the first year, because it believes the plan
will be more successful if first worked out with a
smaller group,
Collegian is hot anxious to see the cooperative
taken over by the IFC Caterer’s Association unless
that group is willing to interpret the paid man
ager’s duties broadly.
. Food buying is not the only place where fra
ternities can save money. They can profit as well
On other buying coal, for instance, on more
careful management of what they already have,
on closer attention to delinquent bills and on alt
manner of economies.
• What is needed now is one organizer, a good
one and 3n enthusiastic one.
"True freedom of all men and of all women has
never yet been realized on this earth. It may
never be realized altogether. But if it is ever to
be realized, the people of the United States, with
ibeir tradition of political responsibility, their
mastery of the skills of industry and agriculture,
ibeir ownership of the wealth of the richest of all
lands, have a better right to hope for its realiza
tion than any other nation has ever had." Archi*
bnld MacLeish, poet arid librarian of Congress,
Downtown Offico
119-121 South Frasier St,
Nisht Phone 4572
.Arita L. H<?fferan '4J.
.Louisa M. Fuogb '43
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(Tfii'j opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily re
flect the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.)
There have lately come to our ears certain ri
bald and wanton comments having to do with out
last week’s little anabasis into the hinterlands of
the sub-conscious. We are much pained; and' the
better our position to maintain stoutly do protest
that, weary of ceaseless ill-humored paragraphs,
we did but tread the hem of fancy’s lacy garment.
Unfortunately we tripped and got a pretty nasty
cut over the right eye. It will not happen again.
The Greek War Belief, has planned a benefit
cinema showing at the Cathaum Theatre at
eleven-thirty this Friday evening. The show starts
just about the time every one is coming down from
the fights at Rec Hall. Every last cent from the
admissions goes directly to the Greeks; even the
theatre personnel are donating their efforts to the
cause. We’d like to see the thing be a success, if
for no other reason than that so little attention has
thus far been paid the little fellows who have
managed the almost impossible feat of out-Finning
the Finns. Even if the Greeks have sent us no
fox-hunters, or air vice-marshals, they still de
serve some of our support. After all the Greeks
were never quite au fait at the social graces . . .
they had the insufferable cheek to discover de
mocracy before Parliament could pass on it . . .
Walking, as we do occasionally, about this tree
shaded campus, we hear of many things. For in
stance, we have heard that an honor system would
be an impossibility here. Conceive of six or seven
thousand honorable persons. It staggers- the mind.
It might even mean that a chap would have to
study for examinations instead of leaving it to
some eager stooge. It would blast the intricate
science of cribbing just when that science has
■reached its acme of perfection. In time the stand
ards of the college might come to be raised. Hor
rible. Leave honor systems to such 'schools as
Washington and Lee, and Western Maryland, and
V. M. i. As a matter of fact-leave honor systems
to the trustees at Rockview, which is run pretty
efficiently by the simple method of allowing chaps
to preserve - their self-respect by placing confi
dence in them. But never impose such' a burden
as honor "on us. Not Penn State, please. -
Concerning chapel funds . . . we recall with a
smile what happened when Marie Antoinette and
her husband sent money and ships to the starving
Americans. Concerning her own bitterly poor
population, the little lady made her well known
remark about cake: Every one knows-the rest of
the story . . • —Cassius
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Letters to the Editor —
Dr. Marquardt Explains
Statement On Loans
To the Editor:
In reply to a letter which ap
peared in the edition of The
Daily Collegian for March 15 and
written by Miss Julia Brill, I
should like to present the follow
ing facts.
In an interview, I pointed out
that a letter to the Collegian to
the effect that “the Class of 1922
has recently diverted its funds—
about $30,000 —from a swimming
pool to the student loan fund”
■was in error. This statement also
in one of the columns
of the Centre Daily Times. My
statement was an attempt to ex
plain that the Class of 1922 had
not taken official action in the
matter of the $29,000 at its dis
posal, but that the 1922 Class
Memorial Committee was recom
mending that this fund be al
located to scholarships at the
College. The undersigned hoped
that the Class of 1922 would add
its money to our scholarship
fund. It was in connection with
the money available for
scholarships that the statement
was then made that these schol
arship funds had not 'been ma
terially increased since the year
1909 when the undersigned be
came a member of the College
faculty.
Since the class funds of 1922
had- not been allocated .to the
student loan fund and since those
members of tile 1922 Memorial
Committee who had discussed
this matter with our College Sen
ate Committee were in favor of
having those funds allocated to
the scholarship fund, I remarked
that there did "not seem to be any
new funds available which could
be added to our present inade
quate student loan fund resources
at this time unless the Class of
1941 should decide in favor of
putting its $5,000 into that fund.
Very truly yours,
C. E. Marquardt,
College Examiner
Whole Hog Or None,
Weatherman Asks
To the Editor:
In an article in last Friday’s
Collegian there is a statement
to the effect that Spring arrived
six weeks late according to Mr.
Ground Hog’s predicition. Being
from Punxsutawney, the home of
the groundhog, I feel it my duty
to correct your error.
On Febniary 2; the groundhog
saw his shadow and and promptly
dived back into his burrow, wait
ing long enough to shout to those
loyal members of The Groundhog
Miss Marguerite McFadden
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WEDNESDAY;.MARCH 26, 1941
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY" -
Student Union Dance, Armory,
4 p.m. ■ .
Student Radio Committee,- -
Room 318 Old Main, 7 p.m.
IMA Central Council, Room
405 Old Main, 7 p.m.- .:
Cabin and Trail Club, Room r
418 Old Main, 7 p.m. '•
WRA" Bridge Club, Room 3 ....
White Hall, B:30 p.m. New mem
hers welcome.
Morning Lenten Service, Hugh
Beaver" Rooni, 7 a.m. f
’44 Indepehdent meeting, 302
Old Main, 7 p.m.
"Senior women’s meeting,
northwest lounge Atherton Hall
at 7. p. m. to select six honor
women."
College Observatory open from
7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
. PSCA Freshman Council Dance
Committee, Hugh Beaver'Room,
4 p.m.
. PSCA Forty-F or u rri , Hugh
Beaver Room, 7 p.m; Speaker:
Rabbi Benjamin Kahn.
PSCA Freshman Council, Hugh
Beaver Room, 8 p.m. Prof. E. "W.
Callenbach will speak on “Do
You Want a Job?” •
Arthur Espy, head teacher Of
fire schools, Public Service III;
stitute of Pennsylvania, "Will
speak on “Municipal Fire Fight
ing Organization and Problems”
in Room 124 Sparks, 4 p.m. This
is the fifth in a series of lectures"
bn Pennsylvania local govern
ment and administration.
Meeting of Sophomore Editor- _
ial Board of Collegian in 312 Old.
Main at 4:10 p.m. ' . :
. tomorrow -
CA Seminar, Hugh Beaver
Room, 7 p.m. Dr. John A. -Fer
guson will speak on “Issues "Be
fore Congress."
Cosmopolitan Club
TKE house, 8 p.m.
Club there assembled, “Well,
boys, it looks like six more weeks •
of winter.” "As everyone know*,-...
his prediction proved to be true.
- Collegian probably erred dbe- . .
caused it used the prognostica
tion which leaked out of Quarry:
ville sometime in February. Let—
me say that that prediction, made...
by a hybrid-skunk masquerading
as a grouiidhog, is deservingrttfr:..
the scorn expressed by Dr. "Hel
mut Landsberg. Dr. Landsberg
should realize, however, thatffhe .
only authentic prediction comes
each year from our .own Seer of
Gobbler’s Knob, the Punxsiir—.
tawney groundhog.
Sincerely, ,
Richard E. Jenks, ’44._“
University of Illinois Alumirt_"r
News reports 85 to 90 per cent
of 1940 graduates are employed
in work of their choice. _