RAGE; TWO
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn Slate"
Establishe-I 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
State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934
at the post-office at State College. Pa., under the act of
March 8, 1879.
Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr.
Adam Smyser '4l Lawrence Dxiever '4l
Bditoiiiit d.'i'J Business Office
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Phone 711
W miei* s hilit'»r -Vera L. Kemp *4l: Managing Editor
- Huber** ft. Fnne *4l: Sports. Editor —Richard C. Peters
*4*: News Editor— William E. Fowler *4l; Feature Editor—
Edward J. K. McLorie *4l; Assistant Managing Editor —Bay-
ard Bloom *4l; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. Hefferan
*4l; Women’s Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel *4l.
Credit Manager—John H. Thomas '4l; Circulation Man
ager—Robert G. Robinson *4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth Gold-
Mein *4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis *4l.
Managing Editor .This Issue —John A. Baer *42
Assistant Managing'Editor This Issue - Robert E.. Sohooley *43
News Editor This Issue Nicholas W. Vozzy *43
Woman's Editor This Issue Jeanne C.‘ Stiles *42
Assistant Women's Editor This Issue Jeanne E. Ruess *43
Graduate Counselor
Saturday Morning. March 29, 1941
Meed Pim Action-Resulted
Sn Hebei Emergency-fund
It is difficult to find a project more worthy of
praise than the emergency loan fund originated
little more than a year ago by Mrs. Ralph D. Het
zel for students requiring money at short notice.
Already 78 students have used the fund with
loans aggregating $615. At present, there is a bal
ance of $793 available at any time for students’
emergencies.
The fund was established at Mrs. Hetzel’s sug
gestion; her name has been connected with the
project to insure the feeling of a' personal fund
where deserving students may find help.
Loans up to $lO are made with no interest
charged and more may be extended at the discre
tion of the committee. No security is required
from those receiving the aid and help given is
immediate.
One of the commendable features of the fund is
that students feel the responsibility to repay the
aid offered when it is convenient for them. Only
one loan has not been returned.
Since the necessity for,such a fund was recogniz
ed by Mrs. Hetzel and tbe fund subsequently
established, it has received the enthusiastic sup
port of campus and town organizations and inter
ested persons. These groups have indicated their
irxterest and support by contributing money and
clothes to the fund. Over $1,036, aside from
clothes, has been contributed in this way.
It is the object of the fund to keep its transac
tions as personal as possible and dispel the feeling
of impersonality in this large college. The tact
and quiet understanding with which the commit
tee operates, so students may feel free to accept its
aid, is noteworthy.
Serious consequences might have resulted were
it not for the emergency fund to tide students over
when their funds are low.
The value of such a project, which lends money
and provides clothes for deserving students, is
great. It is fitting that the financial need of am
bitious students, anxious to acquire a college edu
cation, be recognized in this way.
To these students and others showing admirable
attributes, the fund willing loans money..
The fund which has already aided many stu
dents is able to help still more. We feel it is a
worthwhile project, established' where and when
the need was felt. It deserves the whole-hearted
support of all connoted with the College and
should be recognized as one of the most worthy
campus organizations. —JCS
Whose Knockout Punch!
The continual re-discovery of the narrow-mind
ed selfishness with which all of us act is most dis
heartening.
Take the present case of labor which is availing
itself of the nation’s need for fast and furious pro
duction to strike for better wages.
Despite the fact that the unions under President
Roosevelt have received more cooperation and
made more real progress than at any time in his
tory, they are now balking the nation and the
same president in the hour of need.
There is only selfishness and no gratitude. The
unfortunate thing is that the short-sighted policy
is going to cost labor more than it vvill gain. Pub
lic opinion is important to the realization of any
goal. With public opinion labor has a rather con
sistent record for knocking itself out.
Each time labor dobs knock itself out with the
public in general it lO'ses a couple of years'. That’s
what it is busy doing now, throwing away years
of carefully built up progress. ’
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(The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily re
flect the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.)
Girls, Girls!
Inside story on opportioning of senior women
honors is that the awards were made as a result
of a deal between Kappa Kappa Gamma and Chi
Omega. It was the old stry of “you vote for our
girls and we’ll vote for yours. J ’
And all along we had been counting on the
w omen to clean up Campus politics and elect can
didates on merit basis. Maybe the coeds aren’t the
little angels their guiding hand thinks they are.
A 1 Mclntyre ’39, ex-Collegian scribe and erst
while Theta Xi, is going to fly up. from Florida via
Eastern Airlines to attend Interfratemity Ball,
according to George Parrish.
It looks like a publicity stunt to us.
Saach Steals Show
Most colorful figure among the scholastic pug
ilists gathered here for their nationwide battle
royal this -weekend is not an undergraduate but
Southwestern Louisiana’s coach George (Gee'
Mitchell. Known to his pupils as “Punchy,”
Mitchell is nearly as broad as he is tall and can
pack more humor into one South-drawled sentence
than Jack Benny.
He has never boxed in his life and nearly kicked
off with apoplexy when he was notified by the
SLU authorities that he was to be the new boxing
coach. He recovered sufficiently to dispatch a let
ter to our own Doctor Houck wherein, he asked if
the good doctor would be so kind as to drop him
a few lines on how to coach boxing!
When asked how many boys usually came out
for the boxing team at SLU, “Gee” looked sur
prised and said, “Why. eight.” His questioner
u r as somewhat taken back- and exlaimed. “Thats
just enough for one full team!”
“Sure.” said the droll “Gee,” “That’s ali the
scholax'sliips we give.”
Alsamni Hews
Among prominent Alumni returned for the
weekend and the fights are Pat Costello ’39. ex
boxing manager and Ted Kesko ’4O. ex gym man
ager. George Schless ’4O. another ex-Collegian
mainstay, breezed into town yetserday in a shiny
red Packard convertible. . Who says State journal
ism graduates don’t make any money? The de
bonair George is living proof to the contrary.
Among those not present but accounted for are
Chuck Haidt ’4O and Preston Postlethwaite ’4O.
Both of these estimable alumni have answered the
■call of their country (Their number came up) and
joined the armed forced of the nation. The coun
try is saved.
The following little ditty, contributed by W. J„
is respectfully dedicated to Emil Axelson, Kappa
Sig senior, who is very much enamored of petite
Helen Schmelz, freshman queen.
The sun is shining on';the grass.
And all the birds sing'as they pass,
The clouds look soft and white and near,
And we go outside to drink our beer.
And gosh you see such funny things.
Boys beg their girls to take their rings.
They mope around with mournful look,
An newer crack a gosh dam book.
Is that what makes boys look at me?
And then look down and say, “Ah gee.”
Is that what makes the breezes buzz?
And Ma, is THAT what flowers, does?.
Let The Reader Beware
When a student editor approaches his typewrit
er, he often feels obliged to battei' out some
weighty pronouncement that, 24 hours later, after
his college has consumed it. will at least have
changed the history of the institution if not of
America. . *
Either the editor is likely to become stage struck
or else he begins to babble meaningless, high
sounding phrases. Collegian's editor confesses to
the weakness, at- least to succumbing sometimes —
probably more often than he confesses.
But he confesses, too; that he is always a trifle
surprised, albeit pleased, to see some reader scan
ning the left side of page two.
From the usual lack of reaction he is occasion
ally tempted to swear, print filthy jokes, or rank
libel, or otherwise profane the press just to see it
anybody notices.
This is fair warning,’ gentle reader. Some day
your sensibilities may be put to"-heavy test’. Steer
■yourself.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Letters to the Editor —^
Flies In Our Soup,
We're Really Sorry
To the Editor
I read your Collegian daily
and love it dearly, but you lost
a friend when I scanned your
last issue; particularly the re
view of the intramural wrestling
bout. After_ having the living
daylights kicked out of me by one
Mr. Metzle” you have the .col
ossal and unadulterated nerve to
say I forfeited .the bout.
Flies in your soup
Harry C. Morford '42
Eggs Have
No Secrets
r Eggs have no secrets any
more. They sit in-rows on wire
seats in the research laboratory
of Prof. John E. Nicholas, de
partment of agricultural engin
eering, waiting to have their
temperatures taken. .
Each little'egg has-a slender
wire inserted in its interior to
which is attached -an electric
thermometer. By this means
Professor Nicholas is able to de
tect indications even before an
egg begins to thinks of going
bad.
In scientific terms, the most
economic temperature at which
to store' eggs to maintain high
quality at the corresponding re
lative humidity is being deter
mined. 'Strangely per-haps, the
humidity or moisture in the ak
in which eggs are kept seems to
have -as much or more influence
on their keeping in good con
dition as the temperature.
Eggs are living organisms, and
they, develop, or deteriorate as'
such, depending on the. observ
er’s point of view. In order to
observe them' intensively, Pro
fessor Nicholas has eggs stored
at room temperature, in electric
refrigerators, in water-cooled
cabinets, under electric fans, in
cold water, and almost if not
quite-resting on cakes of-ice.
The problem of taking an egg
apart and putting it together
again has not yet been solved,
but why take an egg apart if
you know, already what is going
on in its interior, as Professor
Nicholas does?
Lost Cartoons Almost
o©Say Isssse Of Froth
Thirty cartoons'that were lost
or misplaced almost prevented
■Froth from making its appear
ance at Student Union apd
down-town sales spots yester
day. '
Informed, by the printer Mon
day that his cartoons had not
been received, Russ Gilbert,
‘staff artist,- drew them for a
“second time and rushed them to
Williamsport. Due to the" ef
forts of the printer, Froth" was
able to make its seventh sche
duled issue.
Martha Scott. The Exciting New Star of "Our Town” and "The
Howards of Virginia." in an unforgettable role as a feminine
Mr. Chips— ,
| TODAY
SATURDAY. MARCH 29. 1944..
CAMPUS CALENDAR
PSCA cabin party
of Old Main,- 10 p. m.. , : &s
Campus 4-H I'Party m'eets":;in.
first floor lounge of Old Main, 3
o’clock.
Roller skating%essions';iiV 'Ar
mory, 3 to 5 o’clock and. 7 fo‘ 9
o'clock. ■-
Drawing for'Cows in the Dairy.
Exposition; Roohrt 17 Dairy at 7
o’clock. ‘ A meeting-of the Dairy
Science Club will be held at-this
time.
PSCA freshman customs: com
mittee. 304 Old Main. 8 o'clock.
Washington Inquiry group,
Hugh Beaver Room, Old Main,' 8
o’clock.
ASCE. Room 107 Main Engi
neering. 7"p. rn.-J ' ‘ •
TUESDAY
' Freshmen' candidates for edi-
'torial staff of The Daily Colleg- ,
giah, Room 312 Old Malrif 7
o’clock. All freshmen wishing to
try out who. have not x-epoxted
before should do so at this time.
Women editorial staff candi
dates for The Daily Collegian,
Room-312 Old Main. 5 o’clock.
Color-Sound Movies
ToßeGiveft Tuesday
A I'ooo-foot cdlor film pic-,
turing the summer attraction of
the Banff-Lake Louise region of
the Canadian Rockies and a
steamer journey from Vancou
ver to Alaska will be presented
in Room 10 Sparks building at
4 p. m. Tuesday.
Color shots of the Banff
Spring Hotel, the Bow River
valley, trout fishing and canoe
ing oh thgßow River and horse
back riding over mountain trails,
are shown.' ’ Impressive' -'views
'of nearby Lake Louise 'and' mas- ;
sive Victoria 1 - Glacier' are' 'also
included. ' - ' '" .""“ 'V
The. Alaska sequence..is ' tak
en via the famousj sheltered. In
side Passage and a closeup of
Taku Glacier. The"-picture"'is
sponsored - by -the State College
and Bellefonte r Rotary;:.-.Th&ns,
and Kiwanis service'clubs."' ""
DSD YOU ICffOW
that Penn and Penn
State participated in
the first intercollegi
ate baxing meet stag
ed in the U. S.?
FROMM'S
* ~ Opp. Old Main
MON. - TUES. - WED.
ioWs at 1:30. 3:00i 6:30. 8:30
Wallace Beery—Lionel Barrymore-.
h “THf BAD RAM. 1 *
TODAY
leave rear ,
MONDAY