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THE DAILY COLH.EG9/A1
"Tor A Better Penn State"
JjJitablisned 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
J3tate College. Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1934
at the post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 3. 1379.
Editor , jgu.. Bus. and Adv, Mgr.
Adam Stnyssr ”41 Lawrence Driever '4l
.Editorial and Business Office
813 Old Main Bld^
I’uotie 7 i L
VJMmcnM Editnr—Vera 11. Kemp *4l; Managing Editor
R.'hprt 11. Lane *4l; Sports Editor —Richnrd C. Peters
; Editor— William E. Fowler ’4l ; Feature Editor—
Edward J. K. McLorie *4l; Assistant Managing Editor —Bay-
m*d Bloom *4l: Women’s Managing Editor—Arita L. Hefferan
Ml; Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Riekel ’4l.
Credit Manager—John H. Thomas “41; Circulation Man
ager—Robert G. Robinson Ml; Senior Secretary—Ruth Gold
-rttein Ml; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewie ’4l
Maimgring Editor This Issue .'.William J. McKm'grht M 2
An.iMstart Managing Editor This Issue James D. Olkein M 3
Women’s Editor This Issue Arita L. Hefferan *4l
Assistant Women’s Editor This Issue Louise M. Fuoes MS
Graduate Counselor
Wednesday Morning, April 2, 1941
State College Refugees
State College has its own refugees.
It may be fun, romantic, and oh, so fine to help
refugees three thousand miles east and ten thou
sand miles west but what are we going to do now
that we have some right beside us?
• A group of students, waitresses for the most
part, trying to work their way through college or
save up enough money to start were cleaned out of
building in which they roomed come to its end
Tuesday morning.
We can sit by and make plans for a bigger Brit
ish War Relief drive this fall.
We can Bundle for Britain.
We can send, our chapel funds to Lingnan in
China and Immeasurably improve the quality and
quantity of Chinese agriculture.
We can provide food for the starved nations of
Europe.
• We can do all manner of kind things for people
thousands of miles away. But now that we have
a situation here which to 10 or 15 people is just as
important, just as disastrous, and even more im
mediate, what are we going to do?
Where is our American good neighborliness?
Where is the community interest and cooperation
that makes such good fiction?
Somehow. Collegian feels that it is here, all of
it, a bit repressed by the trials of 1941 perhaps but
just as good and as strong as it ever was if only
we can uncover it.
Let’s.
Morons, M Fill CoSmSsfo-
A recent editorial in a New England newspaper
reported a rather pessimistic outlook on the future
of the nation if the current 'trend of youth move
ments continues. The editorial charged the youth
of America with. Communism and other usin’ ten
dencies. but apparently all evidence was based on
•the fact that a college audience hissed and jeered
the United State President when he appeared on
the screen in one of the town movie houses.
While we would be the' last ones to condone
such ah ill-mannered and perhaps unpatriotic ac
tion. we rather feel that the New England editorial
writer jumped at the wrong conclusion by blasting
away at the youth, and predicting the country was
going to pot. We hesitate to think what the same
editor would write after witnessing a typical State
College response to the President's appearance in
a newsreel.
First of all. the vociferous hissing and booing is
not typical of all young people and is aimed rather
at a certain personality than at the highest ofiice
in the land. Secondly, the same persons who lead
the booing would probably make good patriots
when put to the test at the necessary time. Try
booing at the flag next time you’re fit the movies
and run for your life.
What causes a group of supposedly intelligent
Penn State students to act in such a strangely
demonstrative way? Rather than accuse the col
legians of ‘ism’ -tendencies we think there is an
other answer. A certain element of the student
body here suffers from a 'slight inferiority com
plex. Perhaps it is a hangover from the “cow col
lege” era. Or perhaps they are still unaware that
the Joe College days of the twenties are gone for
ever. Be what it may, they made ridiculous spec
tacles of themselves in public places to assert
themselves and thus compensate for the complex.
But the few who do that are like headlines in the
newspapers and obscure the rest, or body type,
which is in the great majority.
No censure by the Collegian of those few will
do any good, but'the obscured majority should
realize that it is the conspicuous elements of the
student body which gives the College the reputa
tion it has with the town visitors. —P.N.
Downtown Office
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(The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily re
flect the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.)
At the behest of a friend of. ours who is vitally
interested in what may best be termed as gro-
tesque phenomena, we should like to inquire of
those of our readers concerning themselves with
neolithic culture whether any one of them has ever
heard of a fape? Because last week on the side
walk on the western side of Allen Street some un
known genius drew, with a firm hand and unques
tionable mastery of his medium, what he was
pleased to label “a FaPE.” And our friend has
been sorely troubled in his mind, for he hasn’t the
slightest idea of the nature of a FaPE. And since
he is not acquainted with the draftsman respon
sible, it is not impossible that unless information
is presently forthcoming his mind may never again
rest at ease. Personally we can offer little of
value, except for the observation that phonetically
FaPE have much on the ball. A trifle
spineless. In the event that any one does have an
authentic definition, we should be only too happy
to it on.
From lime to time we spent a few idyllic mo
ments glancing over what purports to be the social
page of the Philadelphia papers. There is no
pleasure on this earth akin to the sensuous luxury
of reveling, for the nonce, with the very best peo
ple. Thus we learned, recently, that the Radnor
Hunt will this year be graced by the presence of
several British hunters of the purest strain and
from the finest sires and dams in all Briton. The
horses, we further learned, have been sent to this
country to avoid the nervous shock of war’s
alarums, and to preserve their ancient lineage. All
of which should make any fox holed by the Rad
nor Hunt feel ever so much better about the whole
business. The fact that several British children
could have been sent across for the same monies
expended in exporting the aforementioned horses
seems to have escaped the notice of rather a goodly
number of persons. But then perhaps we are sen
sitive. There are always plentiful supplies of
children, while on the other hand a decent hunter
is rarely bred.
The British always were a sporting crowd.
interested Politicians I
Baird, Doherty-, Blakeslee and Grey, elected to
student leadership last month,'did not attend last
night's meeting of All-College Cabinet.
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Letters to the Editor —
Whose Knockout
Punch ?
To the Editor:
The editorial entitled “Whose
Knock-Out Punch?” in The Daily
Collegian of March 29 seemed to
this reader to beg a number of
important questions. The labor
difficulties of the defense pro
gram were ascribed to the unions
alone, and they were held to be
selfish and ungrateful iTC~strik
ing for better wages in the na
tion’s hour of need.
This reader would like to in
quire: (1) What is the scope of
the present wave of labor diffi
culties, more particularly, how
does the "number of disputes,
workers involved and mandays
lost compare with corresponding
figures a year ago, or in the sim
ilar period in the first World
War? (2) To what extent does
the present crop of disputes re
present unselfishness and intran
sigence on the part of manage
ment as well a's labor? (3) In how
many of the disputes is an in
crease in - wages the principal
bone of contention? (4) How.
many of the employers concern
ed have conceded to the striking'
workers the rights accorded by
the nation’s laws?
This reader is of- the opinion
that an editorial that included
answers to questions such as
these would picture the situation
more accurately. It should also
offer a mox-e constructive ap
proach than the vague hint that
labor will lose its gains by pro
voking public opinion.
Respectfully yours,
ARTHUR H. REEDE,
Asst. Prof., Economics.
Editor’s Note: Mr. Reede
should (and- does) know the an
swers better than Collegian, but
we’ll give our Thursday off to
preparing an answer.
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CAMPUS CALENDAR
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Student Union
4 p.m. . ■ 1 rv jz. ■:
PSCA Cabinet-~meefing,--405
Old Main, 8:15 p.m.
IMA Central Council" meeting,
•'3lB .Old Main,TO pon-t ; '
- Ag Student Council, 4lB'Old
Main, 7:30 p.m. .. .'z:
- Co-Edition Staff meeting',~3 18
Old Main, 7:30 p.m- ; ~~~ .
PSCA Race Relations'Commit
tee, Hugh Beaver R00m, :: 7 p.m.
Roger K. Williams, graduate stu
dent in psychology will'Speak, j
Persons who registered fojkthe
Physical Fitness Course report to
Rec Hall at 7:30 p.m. '
Women interested in table ten
nis championship tournament
sign up in WRA office; or ’call
Room 402, Atherton Hall.
WRA Bridge Club meets in-
Ping ■ Pong Room of White Hall
at 6:30 p.m. All interested are
Invited to attend.
Compulsory Cwen meeting in
Stevenson’s apartment, Grange
Dormitory, 8:15 p.m.
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