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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"
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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
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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
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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
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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. -
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Pledging of . Alpha7tarnbda.
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Atherthn:" Please wear 'white.
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