PAGE TWO THE !DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State"' &dablizhed 1910. Successor to the Penn State Collegian. established 1904, and the Free Lance, established ISB7. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College .year by the students of The Pennsylvania Slate College. Entered as second-class matter July 0, 1934, at the Pout-office at State College, Pa., under the act of Msrch 3, 1879 Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Boss Lehman '42 James McCaughey '42 Etritorial xn I 01.13i1,10::.4 Office 813 Old Il4ain 131d7- Pii)rici 711 Women's Kiitor—Jeanne C. Stiles '42; Managing Editor— Sohn A. Baer '42: Sports Editor—A. Pat Nagelberg '42: Feature Folit6r—William J. McKnight '42; News Editor— Stanley PoNempner '42; Women's Feature Editor—Alice M. Murray '42; Women's Sports Editor—R. Helen Gordon '42. Credit Martattse—Paul M. Goldberg '42; Circulation Man oger—Thomas W. Allison '42: Women's Business Manager-- Margaret L. Embury '42; Office Secretary—Virginia Ogden '42; Assistant Officv. Secretary—Fay_E. Reese '42. Junior Editorial Board—Cordon L. Coy, Donald W. Davis, Dorninkk L. Golab, Jams D. Olkein, David Samuels, Robert .Schooley, Richard S. Stebbins, Samuel L. Stroh, Nicholas, W Vozzy. 'Herbert J. Zukauskas, Emily L. Funk, Louise N. rows, Edith L. Smith, Kathryn M. Popp. Junior Business Board—Leonard E. Bath, Roy E. Barclay, Robert E. Edgecly, Phillip Jaffe, Frances A. Leiby, John E M.cCool, Sara L. Miller, Katherine E. Schott, Marjorie L. Sykes. Pt:inning E;lit.or ____ 14-,ws Editnr . Women's E.l,thr This; Issue __ C rad uat,. Co u n Thursday Morning, May 8, 1941 Take A Bow, Finkle One in a while, buried underneath the pile of ludents seeking political or BMOC glory, a stu dent is found unheralded and unknown, perform ing a task far more important and painstaking than many jobs performed by campus. personali ties. David Z. Finkle '4l is such a man. Few people here on campus know him and less know what he does. Many will benefit from his efforts. A few years ago, it was proposed that an extra file should be established to aid students in study ing for bluebooks and final examinations. This idea was dormant until Finkle took over the job. He knew that his position would be thankless, that many persons would benefit from his tireless efforts without caring who was responsible for alleviating their "bluebook blues." Still, he took the job. That was only the beginning! Finkle encoun iered all types of difficulties. First, he couldn't - find a place for the files. He dickered with Library officials and received consent to use their facilities. Secondly. he needed acuity and student cOopera iion in submitting examinations. He procured That too. Then, Finkle needed a backer. Countless trips to All-College Cabinet paid dividends. He sold them the idea. But, finally, the hardest job of all faced him. He needed money, $71.40, to support the exam file and its clerks during the coming final examinations. Faced with closing the exam files again; he appealed to the All-College Cabinet again, and got the money. So, our hat's off to David Finkle, still unknown, ),at at least heralded. We Can't All Be iDrafted When even the College' administration, after close study, won't haiard more than a weak esti mate of how many Penn State students will be called in the draft next year, it's the best indica tion in the world that students themselves have no way of telling what is in store. True, those who registered last fall have a fairly good idea of how they stand in relation to Selec- Sive Service but what about the hundreds who will probably have to registos:;issummer? What will the registraiitiliaate be? • Will any provision ) Je mate it'a continuous registration in the future? i,lll the age limits remain the same or will they be changed? Is there any chance that blanket r;tudent deferment or. a similar type of deferment will be available? Despite this lack of definite information, many students have adopted a totally pessimistic atti tude. Some of them frankly and firmly believe that there will be no use in returning to College next year, that if they do they will only be called out again by the Army. That view is wrong. Let's look on the bright Side of things. At the rapid pace set by this mod ern war. England may hold the upper hand by September. Draft deferments may be increased. Young men may be allowed to choose the year in which they desire to serve. These potentialities, which could be multiplied over and over, point to one conclusion: Plan things as normally as possi hle and forget all about the drastic changes which could take place but probably won't. Downtown Office It9-t2l South Frazier St. Night Phone 4372 Gordon Coy '43 ...Robert Schooley '43 _ Emily L. Funk '42 _Louis H. Bell --J.A.B Proudly Presenting! When first the muse (namely, ye editor's pointed remark about "how about doing some work? ! struck me, I never thought that mine would be the pleasurable fate to present an original article by a nationally known writer. But into these hands, beating at the news-worn typewriter, came a mes sage written by Rockwell Kent, the famous artist and author, (latest book, "This Is My Ow"). Con taining pertinent words about the world scene, somewhat differing from contemporary newspaper opinion, I feel that this column is honored to be able to present "To American Youth." Rockwell Kent's Message: I am of a generation old enough to have been fully conscious of the effect on us in America of our participation in the last world war; and I have a memory tenacious enough to recall in all its sor did and unprincipled details the methods of propa ganda by which a peaceful, decent people, intent upon the solution of • their own problems and the pursuit, in their own way, of happiness, were led to sacrifice and fight and die for what we all know now to have been a war for nothing but commer cial plunder. I' have lived Through, and have had io earn my living and the living of many others in the disas- trous years that followed that world war. I saw the suppression of civil liberties and the virtual establishment of Naziism in America in the years immediately following the war. I was led to have false hopes by the great boom of recovery and to have -my hopes annihilated by the crash of 4 29 and know thel've been interested enough to want to the cause of these phenomena, if for no reason but that I, and none that I could influence, might ever again lend themselves to participation in so dia bolical and utterly devastating a course. Now, beginning in 1940, and gathering force in 1941, America is under a leadership identical in character with the American leadership during the first world war, and backed by the identical financial interests. We have embarked upon an imperialist venture that is essentially the counter part of that of a generation ago. I recognize the whole technique of its promotion: the same false pre-election promises, the same first steps, the same seductive propaganda of "defense." I recog nize the land-marks on the road we have been led to take; the employment of propaganda agents in Washington, the subersion of the press to serve "preparedness," the waving of the flag by the tra ditional enemies of democracy at home, the grow ing suppression of civil liberties, the movement for "emergency" suppression of the rights of labor, the ' wholesale painting of the opposition red, as iden tical in method and in purpose with what millions of us in America know to have been the methods of betrayal twenty-three years ago. I have, moreover, read a great deal, and thought a great deal—no more than others should have read and thought, but more than others do. Upon the whole evidence of my senses and- the evidence that reading has brought to my knowledge, I tell. you, not as an opinion which I venture, but as fact, . that this world war Number Two, is as deliber- ; ately contrived a commercial war as world war Number One; that if we permit America to enter it we'll find ourselves in vastly greater involve ments and approach such consequences in terms of national disaster as will make our America, in terms of opportunity for life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, a prospect even more forlorn • than we are Ilailamg you ioclay. American youth made a fatal mistake a" genet . - a - tion ago, and America and the world are paying for it now. It is time mistakes were stopped: And it is up to. you of a younger generation to stop them. Democracy in America faces a great crisis. Don't let them divert you to the front abroad. That di version itself is a part of the planned strategy of those who want to destroy democracy here. Sincerly yours, Now, What Have YOU Got To Say? This column is extremely interested in knowing what impression, if any, has been Made on the cloistered minds,.of its readers by the above. No doubt you were surprised by the absence of juicy tid-bits in this space these last two Thursday mornings, but if anything more noteworthy char acterized your reaction, let 'me "know. • • THE DAILY COLLEGIAN ONE MAN'S MEAT Rockwell Kent CAMPUS CALENDAR Student Radio Committee, Room 405 Old Main, 9 p. m. PSCA Seminar, Room 304 Old Main, 7 p. m. Theta Sigma Phi, Room 318 Old Main, 5 p. in. Outing Club, Room 2 White Hall, 6:30 p. m. Pre-Med Society movies on "Obstetrics," 107 Main Engineer ing, 7:30 p. m. Infantry parade, golf course, 4 p. m. Student-Faculty Relations com mittee, Room 304 Old Main, 8:15 p. m. Student Handbook editorial staff meeting, Old Main, 7:15.p.m. It is important that all members attend. Meeting of women's debate squad, Room 103 Home Ec., 5 p. m. Home Economics demonstra tion, 11:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m., Home Ec. Aud. TOMORROW Varsity Golf Match with Georgetown, College golf course, 2 p. m.• Players present, "The Mer chant of Yonkers," Schwab-Aud itorium, 8:30 p. m. ARROW SHIRTS ARROW TIES ARROW HANKIES ARROW SHIRTS AND SHORTS • etlarteg fetioth 011 op / HEADQUARTERS FOR ADAM. HATS STATE COLLEGE Raise your hand if, you know- what Gordon Dover IT'S ARROW'S popular university oxford shirt J I L with the roll front button-down collar . Which transcends all other shirts in acquiring that casual "take it easy" lack-a-daisitude. Your local Arrow dealer has these oxfords .in white and solid colors. All Arrow shirts have the trim "Mitoga" athletic fit. They're Sanforized,Shrunk' (fabric shrinkage less than 1%). A couple of fins will bciy you a lot of smartness. Arrow ties $l-$1.50 —handkerchiefs 25c up. 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