PAGE TWO TOE DAILY COLLEGIAN - 'For - Z.-Better Peun State" • leSdablished 1940. Successor to the Pena State Col/eiriam established 1904, and the Free Lance. established 1887 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the 4rtrular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania Mate College Entered an second-class matter July 6, 1934 ot the post-office at State College, Pa.. under the art of March 8, 1879, Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Adam SD.'trier "4:11 4 010' Lawrence Driever NI. 1211151(110$314' Office -81; Old trtain Bldg . 1.1.,../ue 711. Women'e Castor-1/era L. Kemp '4l; Managing Editor flokrt ri. Laud - Sports Edttr/r—Richard C. eeteros '4' "News Editor—William E. Fowler '4l; Feature Editor— /:.;(lward J. K. MeLorie '4l; A.ssintant Managing Editor —Bay tUt(i Bloom '4l; Worrien's Managing Editor—Arita Z.. Hefteran. '11; Women'o Feature Editor—Edythe B. Kinkel '4l. Credit Manager—Rihn H. Thomas '4l; Circulation Man ,tirter—Robert G. Robinson '4l ;• Senior Seeretary-:—Ruth. Gold- Mein '41.: Senior Se.m.etiitry—LoNlie H. Erwin .41. Junior Editorial Board—John A: Baer '42, it. Helen Gordon '42. Rona B. Lehman '42, William J. McKnight Mire M. Murray '42, Pat Nrizelberg '42, Stanley Z. PoKemn• iner '42, Jeanne C. Stila '42. Junior Businam Board—Thomas W. Allison '42, Paul 2/(... Idherg '42, Jame.; E. McCaughey '42; Margaret G. E‘mburir Virginia. Ogden 42, Fa' E. Re'a '42. loam:1113am rat] , wrion, L AvvIER $ lIV Natiionall Adivvirtising Se nice, COllege Piiblis&er; RePresentative 420 11040/:501•4 AVE:: NEW YORK. C.:4wi.a.7 • . i. 0.; Alic.,zuz6 -•- 5.4 Ei4:..cs,c,, taanaging Editor This Issue ______Stanley J. PoKempner Views Editor This Issue Dominick E. Golab '4l Woman's Editor This Lssue Jeanne C. - Stile; '42 Assistant Women's Editor This Issue __ iith L. Smith Ni.E ezab , !r r) l .ssocided Colle6ate Prei &4teesiate Dsest CandiuLte Counselor Saturday Morning, April 5, 1941 The labor fronlt ' Today, as it drives for realization and coordina tion of its national defense, the United States is :running up against the same selfishness and nar vow-minded outlook that contributed to the downfall of France.. Natural. as it is, - the naturalness hardly makes it easier to bear. We are hardly in as bad shape aF: the French whose manufacturers sold coal and. - iron to Germany by roundabout channels until List April, but we are experiencing the same stuff in our current labor troubles. The labor troubles today are not as widespread, as in 1917. but that hardly excuses - them. Compare with a peak of 499 strikes for January and Febru ary, 1917, we had only 460 strikes in the corre sponding months this_ year. In the period last year there were 272, Playing an unmeasured part in the present troubles are groups simply trying to hold up de fense, some employer groups, some labor groups. America's criticism of them is so unreserved and. so outspoken that we. need not dwell on it. The people we really need to consider are those who, believing in the necessity for United States defense, still take advantage of the rush and pros perity to push personal ambitions. • These people are not all laboring men, although certainly the soft - coal strikers are in the same category. Management, too, has won its criticism for obstinate action, inciting strikes and failing to arbitrate. Witness the Bethlehem strike. One fact looms important, however. Only labor has the power to strike. Management may incite strikes by its action or its refusal to act, but only lal)or can strike. The weapon labor possesses is dangerous when uot wisely used. Today it is being badly used. .3.tis arbitration died altogether? :Why more strikes Way? Are employers any worse or is arbitration )riore difficult than a year ago? Is labor taking advantage of admittely bad situations, at the ex pense not only of the employer (who may deserve it), but of the whole nation? Prof. A. H. Reede, who provided the statistics Presented here, has suggested what seems a wise solution to the present strikes—a federal law re quiring 30-day notice before a strike may begin. The Railway Brotherhoods, now among the strongest and best-managed labor unions, operate successfully under such a rule, which curbs the power. of neither the employer nor the laborer but gives time for arbitration. Too many people don't know how to use power judiciously. A great many labor groups don't know. Perhaps the employers don't either, al though they have had theirs longer and have a wider experience It's too bad it takes a war to educate us. Northwestern's Purple Parrot told of a student .who turned in a 20-year old term paperfrom his fraternity's files. He got an A minus, and a note from the prof which, roughly, ran like this: "This was an A paper when I wrote it, and by golly it's worth an A mino,st" • Downtown Office 111-121. South Fra.vier St- Night Phone 4172 Distributor of _Louth, li. T3eil 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 (;‘:)) j s c/ THE - VO MANIAC (The opinions expressed in this column do-not necessarily re. fleet the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.> 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Penn State Spirit On display in the window of Crabtree's jewelry store is a beautiful trophy which will soon be the well-deserved possession 6f Paul Scally. greatest 'Penn State boxer since Billy Soose. and present 170-pound National Intercollegiate Champion. The trophy, which is worth quite a few more shekels than the intramural bridge cup, is award ed each year to the outstanding senior on the Penn State mit squad. The trophy, or trophies; is the gift of Frankie Goodman and is known as the Frank J. Goodman Trophy. Goodman, Who's He ? Saturday night at the finals of the boxing Na tionals, Frankie, with the valuable trophy under his arm, waiting to get in and present it to Scally, tried to .get the complimentary blessing he had seen others get. - But all he got , was a high-sign from the strong-armed ticket-takers: "We got two ticket windows over there, boy." Why Goodman didn't get a pass long before the bouts is something we don't understand and if the ex-champ is hurt he has good right to be. Penn State's apologies, Frankie. Draftee's Dirge With due apologies to those who are inclined to frown on modern poetic trends, we offer the fol lowing effort by George Schless '4O, who edited this very colum before it" degenerated to its present state of literary oblivion: Constantly this one wish • Comes stealing through ray gloom; To be back on the Penn State campus When the sweaters are in bloom! Step Down, Brother Johnny Barr may be top dog among the athletes in the Lion Lair but his standing as a lover seems to be in jeopardy. Big Jawn has .been very much enamored of Connie Smith, Kappa queen, for nigh onto a year, and she, apparently, was hot for him. But it develops that" John is not the only man who has crossed the path of the lovely 'Con nie in the last four year. The villain is none other than a brother SAE, Frank Clark, who has come all the way from West By God Virginia_ to spend a few days with. his brothers, and it seems, Miss Smith. Well, you can't have everything John. Coincidence We wonder if the idea struck anyone but us what a coincidence it is that the football manager to heart. After alr, it wasn't the Kappas and the boxing managership passed from the Phi Kap pas to the Betas. A funny thing, fate. Have A Heart, Girls We really didn't think the _zqnior girls would take our blast about their political policies so-much to heart. After all, it wasn't the Kappa's and ChiO's we were attacking (hnun) but the principle of the thing. Although we don't have any bones to pick with the persons honored in election num ber 2, we do think it loks a little spiteful to have left the ChiO's and Kappas out , entirely. Shanghaiied Lii Lit Brand is burned up, and with good reason for she had her part in the current Thespian pro duction "The Jointz Jumpin`, " cut 25%. One of her four lines was ruthlessly. slashed from her part by Will Hays Kennedy at the last moment. The line went like this: Startzel: "Didn't I meet yOu somewhere in Europe?" Our Heroine: "Why, do I look like I just came across?" Now we ask you, what's dirty about that? One of the well-liked professorS at the Univer sity of Richmond felt lazy one day and wrote on the board, "The professor will not meet his classes today." One cute little coed got cuter, erased the "c" from the word "classes," leaving "lasses." When the professor returned to the classroom next day, he saw what had happened, went to the board, and, calmly erasing the "1," took . another day off. If things don't Come your way, chances are you're on the wrong road. Kilts have been worn since 1626: Scotsmen always have been known for their thriftiness. THE-DAILY-COLLEGIAN rp, Footlights 'The Joint's Jumpin" Reduttii7 Schwab Auditorium To Shatiablis By ROBERT L. WILSON '4O The Penn State Thespians played their 44th annual produc tion—" The Joint's Jumpin""— to a jam-packed house last night, and when they had finished, staid, sober' and sedate old Sch wab Auditorium • was left - in shambles. And no wonder, for in "The Joint's Jumpin' "—a knock-em-. down, drag-em-out musicomedy —the Thespians have another hit on their hands, and we want to be the first to acclaim it. Of course, the plot, like all Thespian plots, is just about as thin as a slice' of drug store ham, but the music is fine and the • scenes, with one or two excep tions, are superb. As indicated by last night's' fracas, the fascination for "corn" and' out-and-out burlesque has by no means abated. For the most part, the . antics,' diados and gag lines of the show reek with - both, and the cast makes no' bones about it'. Fortunately, the "corn" is of a college-bred Golden Ban tam variety and shrieks from a crowd of 4,000 last night .bore' testimony that this type of "corn" • is just what the doctor ordered. The dialogue- by Mike Brot- • man; the Three Stooges and Leon Rabinowitz is brighter than any we've been permitted to hear in four years, and, thanks •to J. Ewing "Sock" Kennedy, the ac-_ tion is fast and sure. "Sock," the director, keeps everybody mov ing with his usual dexterity, and Tommy Slutter's costumes and settings seem quite stylish and appropriate. AS usual, the Three StOoges— Ned Startzel, George Parrish and Roy Rogers=carry the • show. Probably the most "Professional" amateur unit in Penn State Thes pian history, the -Stooges knock - themselves and their audience out with a number they wrote • last summer 'entitled ,ZUnk" or "Who Are the • Guys Who Stole the Deacon's Outhouse?" Their bedroom scene makes anything Selznick ever did look like child's play, and their antics in the. !barroom 'scene lit erally stop the show. Les Lewis as Mrs. Herbert VanSmyth, is hilarious at times in her ' role as a society blue blood who takes her fling as a rug-cutting hep-cat, but the audi ence missed that Stringer girl who had a change of pace that Leslie lacks. The Singerettes—Janet Hartz, Barbara Gnau and Miriam Rheim—were swell in every one 4. 1 • Or: f 4/ • A:O. -.-to. Reminder Take Home One Of Our Famous Hand Made EASTER EGGS Ten- Delicious Flaliort For Your Choke - Free—Names and Decorations - May We Wish. You A - HAPPY EASTER .r . . • .o - ELL'S NUT & CANDY SHOP .7OLLEGE & PUGH STATE COLLEGE, Pi. SATURDAY, APRIL 5; 194 E. • of their• numbers, ,ax - Ad ..:Three Beats - and a Pick-up—gickie Reese, Bill Nesbit,, Jimmy-. Ley den and Bill- Bogar = -gave "The Joint's Jumpin' " everything else that was needed to make.ii Musi cally flawless. Gentlemen will like Jane Par:- son in her jitterbug numbers with Jimmy Smith._ Ladies =may well go to sleep. Of the rest of the cast, we can honestly say that Joyce Strope as Nan Ray, Dick Hertz as,. Jives,- Mike Kerns as Superman; Ted Clauss as The Drunk, Joe . McCoy as Shakespearian, and Leon Rab inowitz as Rajah all deserve-your respectful attention. We liked Tom Cummins'. tune "Why Can't We Be Friends?" and- - Jimmy McAdams' number "Ya Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet." We were impressed by what was probably the smoothest Thespian . dancing chorus in years, but we tired of the La - Conga routine, the Dream Fantasy and the an tics of Superman and The Diunk. All this, we are happy, is pre liminary to saying . that "The Joints Jumpin"'-• all but carried us away. CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY Varsity tootlaall_gaine:with St. Francis on NeTlit - da3k:Cf-fiel - at 2 p.m. Thespian show . :..`_`The Joint's Jumpin' " in SCiiiiiiikadittiriura at 7 o'clock. TOPIORTW Hike to Lemont, Oak Hall, and Airport. Meet at the postoffice at 2 p.m. Leader, Bob.itanittrin. - M'ONDAY • All students and facultr - rnern.- bers interested in fishing report to 316 Sparks Bldg. r at.'7, o'clock. Subject, fishing. eqUiptiiertt. - Pledging of . Alpha7tarnbda. at.s, Southwest lothige of Atherthn:" Please wear 'white. Fraternities! HAVE YOU TRIED NEW BEAVER' BROS. BREADS and SWEET• ROLLS Call 1: AVER BROS. Phone Levrisiown 791
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