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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian.
established 1904. and the Free 'Lance. established lbKi.
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
regular College year by the students of The Pennsylv.,ni..l
State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934
at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 8, 1879.
Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr.
Ross Lehman "42 o%lDtp James McCaughey '42
Editorial and Business Office
813 Old Main Bldg.
Phone 711
Women's Editor—Jeanne C. Stiles '42: Managing Editor—
John A. Baer '4 2 ; Sport:7 El:tor—A. Pat Nagelberg '427
Feature Editor—Williarn .1. tlcNniglit 'i2 News Editor
Stanley .1. PoKempner '42: Women's Feature Editor—Alive
M. Murray '42; Women's Sports Editor—R. Helen Gordon '42.
Credit Manager—Paul M. Goldberg '42: Circulation Ma o
ager—Thomas W. Allison '42: Women's Business Manager--
Margaret L. Embury '42; Office Secretary—Virginia Ogden
'42; Assistant Office Secretary—Fay E. Reese '42.
Junior Editorial Board—Gordon L. Coy, Donald W. Davis.
Dominick L. Golab. James D. Olkein, David ~arnuels.
E. Schooley. Iti?hard S. Stebbins. Samuel L. Stroh. 11111.311... i
W. .Vozzy. Herbert J. Zuka.uskas, Emily G. Funk, 1.. , )111-;.2 M.
rims.% Edith L. Smith. Kathryn M. Popp.
Junior BusineA4 Board—Leonard E. Barh, Roy E. Rarelay
Robert E. Edgerly. Phillip Jaffe, Frarrie., , A. Lethy. John E
NieCool, Sara L. Miller, Katherine. E. Si7hott. Marjorie L
Sykes.
Managing Edit.m
news Editor This Issue ___
Women's Editor This Issue
Graduate Counselor
Friday Morning. May 23 ; 194 E
War Threat, Draft Concern
Students Most As Year Ends
This is the curtain!
It is being drawn on a college year that has been
filled with poignant news rtnd critical situations.
The curtain will not only Climax one of the most
eventful years in Penn State history, but it will
fall upon a drama which is not ended.
The hot breath of impending war has fanned the
campus and brought new problems to students and
faculty. And the invasion of conscription and
army duties into the life of the student, in addi
tion to the present state of unrest, has upset the
balanced order of college activities.
Where are we going? Who will be back on
campus next year? How many of us will be draft
ed? We don't know! Seniors find themselves in
a peculiar position. Many of them are offered
good positions with war-boom wages. but they
must take a $2l donation a month from the gov
ernment for a year's service.
Not only seniors, but the undergraduate body
is uncertain of its future. Some students will take
their place beside the graduates in shouldering a
musket for Uncle Sam, while others, attracted by
the high wage scale of war industries, will _desert
the educational halls of Penn State and accept
temporary positions.
This isn't painting a black picture.—it's only an
uncertain one. It's ringing down a curtain on a
scene with a timid hand instead of banging it down
with a resounding thump, because we're not er-
lain whether the curtain will rise again.
During the past year, students have seen their
plans disintegrate and fade into mere dreams as
the roll call of draft numbers has blasted them
out of an ordinary, routine .xistence. Strangely
enough, whether the change has been too sudden
or too numbing, student attitude and temperament
has not undergone a corresponding transforma
tion.
Our philosophy has remained simple and clear.
We know this is a time of crisis and sacrifice. We
don't see our future or know our fate. But, we
do know one thing.—we must keep our heads.
Whether we are destined to march in step with
the drums of war or are preparing to gird the
United States for a long, economic battle, we can
not afford to throw our plans to the winds. From
the college student, the man who generally has
the reins of leadership placed in his hands, must
come the challenge,—the challenge to uncertainty.
If we cannot hope, we can work. Whether we
will be sweating ,in an army camp doing field
maneuvers or performing some menial task for
national defense, we can find satisfaction in knovii
ing that we must work toward an end that is cer
tain to come.
What that end might be, what we must do to ac
complish our purposes, we cannot prophesy. But,
out of the maze and contradictions that face us,
we must follow our ideals. This is no "face to the
clouds" idealism but a practical outlook. Only by
concentrating on what is best and what is com
monly good for all can we meet the problems
whi th face us.
Some of us will come back, others will move
into an entirely new environment, but one thing
will remain with all of us. That' is the will to
maintain our Penn State heritage.
Downtown Office
110-121 South Frazier St
Night Phone 4372
. Gordon Coy '43
Richard S. Stebbin: '43
Edith L. Smith '43
_Louis H. Bell
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Aloha
• 2,000 seniors, young and old,
Both glad and sorry we are told
Will plan next week to extricate
Themselves from all that is ,Penn State
To all of these we drink a toast
For we are very pi oud to boast
That come next fall we'll be the shots
Goodbye. good luck to all you sots:
Unsinginq and unsung, a host of good guys and
gals will go by the board come June 9 without fur
ther ado—for those with ado there's always sum
mer school. It's gonna be tough at Doggie's with
out Brogan and LaPorte and the Sigma Nus; Dosa
Durain. Walt Hosterman, and Jeffrey's boys in
training; Tommie Robinson and the other .pretty
Betas; Carl DeLong, Leo Russell, Maynard Bloom
and the IF, contingent: Larry Driever, Howard
Dingle, Bayard Bloom, and Jake Hay, and Jack
Dixon—honorable mention.
The women will pine and sigh for Jack Good.
Jack Thomas, Bill Fowler (plug), Tommie Back
in-states, Danny Delancey, Mickey Marmion, Dick
"Little Minister"' Bitner, Eddie Spencer, Rodge
Findley, Bill Charles. Jimmie Ritchie, and myriads
of others.
And the freshman crop will have to be puulenty
all right to make up for the loss of Leslie Lewis,
the columnist's friend, Norma Stillpuss, Jo Con
thin, Mary Jane Dalton, Dottie Reeves, Gertie
Hellmers, Estelle Marguilies, Knobby Hefferan.
Helen Cramer and Connie Smith, Eleanor Fagans,
Jean Ezerski, Audrey Schoemmel and Emily Cdyle,
Betty Rand, and ad infinitum.
What No Maid Marian? •
But hardest farewell of all is our tribute to a
man (?) known and loved by all,. a Robin Hood
among Independents, a Casanova among women.
a demon among beer drinkers . . . a fellow who
saw duty and performed it with Out, praise, without
reward .. . a man among men, - a fighter among
foresters, an actor among actors, we give you
PAPPY BARTHOLOMEW!
La Vie! •
Annaul La Vie party at the Grit office in Wil
liamsport this week proved a huge success accord
ing to bits of information which have leaked out
here and there. Seems as if when the party start
e6. out, the superstitious bus driver refused to go
with a load of 13 so editor Dixon saved the day,
dz:shed into the Skellar, and drafted one lonely
soul—and of 50 people he had to choose Rusty
Swift, the beer drinkingest man in this College.
Ra X .
During Finals
At The
CORNER
UNUSUAL
Campus ta1:,:.:•,c,:,2r.
TODAY
PSCA Senior Cabinet, - Hugh
Beaver Room, 4:10 p. m.
Freshman Mass Meetings Com
mittee, Room E, 304 Old Main,
4:10 p. m.
Insurance classes, Room• 304
Sparks, Ba. m. and 3:10 p. m. Al
len E. Wierman, assistant super
visor of correspondence instruc
tion, will speak.
- Modern Dance Recital, White
Hall, 9-p. m. Admission to all co
eds and those who received invi
tations.
Pi Tau Sigma. 318 Old Main,
5:30 p. m.
Pennsylvania 'Press Conference
registration, Lobby Nittany Lion
Inn, 8:30 a. m.
TOMORROW
Bicycle hike sponsored by Out
ing Club. Meet 'at Miles street
Bike Shop, 2p. m. Sixty cents.
•All persons participating in
Mock Battle manoeuvers report to
Armory 1:30 p. m. to draw arms
and ammunition.
Pennsylvania PresS Conference,
Nittany Lion Incl.
Penn State vs. Michigan State,
track, 1:30 p. m.
Tennis, Penn State vs..Muhlen
burg, Tennis Courts. 2 p. m.
Pi Lambda Theta. Hugh Beaver
Room, 1 p..m,
SUNDAY
' Chapel, 11 a. m. Rev. Don Frank
Fenn will speak.
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THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA
FRIDAY, MAY 23,1941
Senior Hot Dog Roast, Jordan
Fertility Plots, 5:30 p. m.
MAY 26 -
Philotes, Room 302 Old Main;
7 p. m.
IFC keys will be available' at
Student Union.
Meeting for persons interested
in -cabin party,• 304 Old Main,. 7
p. in.
Classes end, 5 p. m
MAY 27
Examinations begin 8 a. m
MAY 29
Druids, 318 Old Main, 7 p. m.
MAY 30
Memorial Day Recess. -
Baseball, Penn State vs. Long
Island, 2:30 p. m.
MAY 31
Baseball, Penn State vs. Long
Island, 2:30 p. m.
-JUNE 5
Second Semester ends, 5 p. m.
JUNE 6
Houseparty.
JUNE 7
Houseparty:
Baseball, Penn -State. vs. Pitts
burgh, 3 p. m.
Alumni Day
JUNE 8
Baccalaureate Day, Rat' Hall.
JUNE 9
Commencement Day.
Class Day.
JIM 10 •
.In.terseasion registration 8 a.m
"OEI I
Forgot to
write hiome!
Funny, isn't it,
how the days whizz by?
No use crying
over unused ink..
A long distance call
will fix things up . . .
and the low night rates
on most calls
after seven p. m.
and all day Sunday
are easy on your exchequer.