PAGE TWO TIE DAILY COLLEGIAN '"Foc A Better Perm State" Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State. C,9l2exian, established 1904, aad the Free Lance. established 1887 Publishel daily except Sunday and Monday daring the rezular College year by the studer.ts. of The Pennsylvania 6tate College. Entwed as second-class matter July 6, 1934 4t the post-office at •State College. Pa.. under the -act of. March 8. 1879.. Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Adam Smyser "4E -- 5 . . 1 .- / *-" Lawrence Driever '4l Llitortai acid Office 314 OIL Mai, Ulijt thy Lie 7/1 EW.,.uc—Dera L. Kemp '4l; Managing Editor It. Lunc '4I ; Sport Editor--Richard C. Peters '. 4 ' : Neat Editor—Wilbarn E. Fowler '4l; Feature Edit An - J. K. 111cL7rie '4l; Assistant Mar.a,ging, Editor—Bay ard Bloom '4l; Wornert'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 "41; Senior Secretary—Ruth Gold micin .'4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis '4l. Managing Editor Issue_______ John A. Baer '42 As-Astant Managina Editor This Issur _ Robert E. Schooley '4,1 'Wornert's Editor This Issue Helen Gordon. .Assistant Women's Editor This Issue __Kathryn M. Papp '43 Graduate Counselor. Monday Morning, April 7, 1941 , LMile (ellat Fallacies Editor's Note: .This editorial is: reprinted from the Harrisburg Evening News because of its par tLcular pertinence here. Just as there is a bright side even to afflictions like appendicitis or a tonsillectomy, so.there is a bright side to having the rough ride the American people have had during the past dozen years. Something unhealthy and slyly subversive of real Americanism was growing up in the twenties. It was the desperate desire of every family to bring its sons up into white collar positions. This -brought a sort of cleavage of the population into 'two classes—those who wore white collars and those who didn't. ever there was a false basis for division, that was it. Yet families slaved and struggled, denied themselves everything, so that their sons might 'achieve a job pushing a pencil or pen instead of working with their hands. Thousands of young men, often ill-qualified, fought their way through college or high school for no better reasan than that it seemed. to promise later light work at high • pay. That philosophy was fair neither to 'higher edu cation, nor to American life, nor to the young men. For the primary purpose of education ought not to be to prepare one for a "good job," but- to bring about a better adjustment of a man to life, with a greater appreciation_ of its rich and varied phases. Such objectives are no less valuable to a machinist than to a bank teller. And under today's condi tions the machinist is more Likely to have time and leisure to develop the cultural side of life than the teller. People l'erau finding that out after the depres !;ion struck young men nr bigh schq.ll. edtteations (fir hatter found that the *v:hite for which they had- planned did not exist. They went ir.b textil:2: and steei truck cabs and 'show, And t , ) th , :i surprise of many of them, the, found, first. that it wasn't as bad a life as they had bee.n led to) believe, and second, that they were all the better mill-hands, drivers, or machinists be- cause of their education The whole "white collar• culture" of the twenties is now in disfavor, and the boom in defense indus tries now draws thousands ;more from desk to lathe. More and more of the future seems to be going over to the engineers, the chemists, the skill ed workmen. Real brains and brain work will al ways be at a premium, but a white collar just for a white collar's sake no conger looks as good as it used to. Old and artificial classifications are breaking down, and a good thing, 'too. True Americans will wear no man's collar ibuttheir own, nor will they be as greatly influenced in the future as in the past by its color. Hats Off lo toned .Series Because so many worthy student activities are 'buried underneath the 'praise leveled at a few or ,ganizations, The Daily Collegian doffs its hat to one of the least recognized but most popular stu dent programs which ended yesterday when the ROTC Engineer's band completed the annual com plementary Sunday afternoon concert series for the year. Few persons realize - the hours of unselfish pre paration spent by participating students for the hour-long concerts which draw, on an average, more people than most student presentations. Beginning more than 20 years .ago, this series has presented to Penn State the -best in student musical effort through Choir, glee . club, symphony orchestra, girls' chorus, and. ROTC and Blue 'hands, under the competent direction of Prof. ch rd Ea. Grant and his department staff. Downtown Office lat-1.21 South Frazier St Night Phone 4172 _LouLi EL Bell 111111 young women with War And Youth By FRED LEWIS PATTEE Editor's Noie:—This poem by Dr. Pattee, pro fessor emeritus of American literature, was writ ten for• Friday night's initiation. banquet .of _the Penn State chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Now comes the Spiing with birds•and blossothine;, The Resurrection miracle again. With wakened song all Nature is athrill, But not the hearts of men. For in the Spring—glad skies are monstrous things • A nation's Youth, aloft on steeds of death, Ride the swift winds, and voicing hymns of hate. Let loose destruction winged with fiery breath To blot out homes, make cities ghastly heaps With mangled babes .and mothers mingled in. What can one think or speak or dream of late With half the world a holocaust of death? When Spring . brings bloom and Easter hynms of hate, What can one do but live with tragedy? Then on this day, the climax of our year,.. When to our band we add the year's fit youth And place in their young hands the torch of Truth, What fitter theme for wartime minstrelsy Then Youth, supremest victims of all war, Then blighted Youth, war's major tragedy? O fellow-bearers of the mystic key, You who have pledged to make philosophy Your rule of life, defining it as Truth, The generation soon to have control- In lands across the sea, Is being stripped of soul, Of conscience, inner light, and foully fed Untruth, and these, howe'er the war may. end, At last from scattering armies will be tossed, A pagan generation worse than lost, A danger sinister for all the world. Who wrought this deed? Whence came this mon- strous brood That swarms o'er Europe and its conquered lands? Who tore the Luther's Bible from their hands And taught them from a bible tinct with hell? Who, wrought this deed? Whose was the hand that broke the fatal jar- • From which overflew the pestilential fog Bedrenching every shore, e'en ours - .today? - Great cities bombed can be rebuilt again, Crushed monuments restored, crops made to 2:r0.,‘ In war-torn fields, but what of blighted youth Made pagan from their birth, taught hate in schools Stripped bare of conscience. trained to arrogance innured to cruelty, their god but Force? This arritO monster from the jar unloosed What can compel it to its cell again? (Continued In Next Column? • • • Easter Greetings • from • the . , • Corner unusual THE DAILY COLLEGIAN War And Youth (Continued from Preceding Column) Must we then enter too this realm of steel Where Power is pod and man is but a tool, This realm of swiftness and Satanic skill That makes machines but leaves the guiding Man Brute-Lbare •of all that renders Man divine, Is this "NeW Order" now to be our world? 0. chosen fen•. 'tis ours_ to. shelter Youth, To guide them, mold them,;teach philosophy guide of life as once we pledged.. ours to reillume the smolder ing torch Blown out by ignorance, -end pass it on To youthful hands, to keep the ancient .Faith Our Founders taught, who work ed by light within Who made" humanities . the living 'rock On which they reared -the walls we must defend. Shall this new gospel \ sinister prevail. This European pestilence make Nvay, Invade our schools. our colleges, our homes? • Awake! 0 colleges awake! The "Day" is here! Awake then, Brothers of the mystic key. - ours now : to guard the gates of Truth, Truth that makes Men free. • Boaidurg Auto ins tine OTICEI • • •• In order to be insured transportation between State College and Lewistown reservations must be made before. 10 p.m., April Bth at State College Hotel. Buses will leave rear of First Na-- tional Bank Building temporarily-on - April..Bth and 9th. ~Buse will leave 11:15 a. m.-12:30 p. m. - and 3:15 p. m. April Bth and '9th only niaking connections with eastbound trains. servations are the -only-way to, be guaranteed transportation. Make reservations early. CALL STAVE COLLEGE HOTkL-.733 'MONDAY, APRTE":7, 1941 READ THE COLLEGIAN - CLASSIE;IEDS Mt=i ® ROSARIES ®.:.: And Other Suitable . Gifts For E - a#er 132 -South Alles't Si. -
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