FRIDAY,%MAY 23, .1941 /31 itzkriegl Defense Profs Hold Good Jobs Responsible positions in indus try are held by 83 per cent of the 362 instructors teaching in the part-time engineering de fense training of the College ex tension services, according to figures released yesterday by J. Orvis Keller, assistant to the president in charge of extension. "Working in industry as they do, these men!. all of whom are college graduates in engineering and other technical fields, are familiar with industrial needs and are thus particularly well equip ped to teach in - our program," Mr. Keller said. "Most of the remain ing teaching personnel are mem bers of the academic profession who teach the more highly theo retical subjects." The engineering defense train ing classes of the College, oper ating in 50 towns and cities throughout the state, are part of a nation-wide program being sponsored by the U. S. Office of Education to prepare men for more responsible jobs in the de fense industries. As an exten sion of this program, the College will offer this summer a full day time, 10-week, tuition free course to more than 5,000 high school —gzaduates in 100 towns in Penn sylvania. The Chinese wall is 17 feet and since .1929 president of the wide,,and about 16 feet of it re- board; James Milholland, a mem ber of the board since 1930; and mains above ground.. Including the spurs, curves and loops, it s James L. Mauthe, who has serv length is 2550 miles. ed on the board since 1938. _Naomi, lion Tradition Began As Brainchild OF ° Lemon' Editor Symbolizing "dignity, courage, the Lion!" and magnificence—everything that Using the Lemon as a medium, our college spirit should approxi- Mason kept hammering away at mate," the Nittany Lion, a 34- an apathetic student body. year-old tradition, was the brain child of a student editor. "Dignified, courageous, magni- In 1907, back in the days when ficent, the Lion allegorically rep- Penn •State could with justification resents all that our college spirit boast, a humor magazine, the idea should be; so why not the Nittany of adopting an animal emblem as Mountain Lion?" he pleaded. "Why a collegiate ideal was conceived can't State have a kingly, all-con by H. D. "Joe" Mason 'O7, editor quering Lion as an eternal sen of the Lemon, the College's first tinel?" humor publication. Mason succeeded in putting his "Every college of any conse- idea across, and student enthusi quence has an animal emblem for asm for it mounted. The 1908 La an ideal except Penn State," Mason Vie was the first to give the Lion argued strenuously in the columns official recognition, and it was then of the Lemon. "Our college is the that "Old Nittany," as he was best of all—then why not select named, began his eternal vigil over for our emblem the King of Beasts, the destinies of Penn State. May We Offer to the Class of 1941 Our Sincerest Congratulations EGOLF'S KEEP IN TOUCH . WITH THE COLLEGE DURING THE SUMMER Subscribe Now To The SUMMER COLLEGIAN Room 3.13, Old Main Slated For EIGHTY-THREE PER CENT of the instructors in the College's de fense training program hold re sponsible jobs in industry, J. Orvis Keller, above, assistant to the president in charge of extension, announced yesterday. 3 Trustee Members Named for Re-election Three alumni members of the College board of trustees have been nominated for re-election at the Alumni Day balloting here on June 7. Those nominated are J. Frank lin Shields, a trustee for 36 years r=iw u wz w a mrla ilitary ock :attle 'Fake War' is First • in Third Corps Area Glen Miller Leeds In Swing P&1I. Machine-gun fire, rifle bursts• D and dive-bombers will break the lancing Listed As NOE ReCrealtielli calm of State College tomorrow afternoon, when Scabbard and Blade stages a mock battle. The blitzkrieg, which will be held with the help of the Persh ing Rifles . and other basic stu dents, will begin when the Red forces attempt to capture Bald Eagle Mountain. The Blue forces will try to "repel the invaders." This is the first mock battle of this sort in the history of the Third Corps Area, Bernard Brenman '42, originator of the plan, reported. Officials from Third Corps Headquarters will witness the "fake war," and if successful, it will be a permanent feature for all Third Corps schools with ROTC divisions. Four airplanes will aid in the and Wayne King. offensive, doing some "heavy Miller's band tops all others, bombing" with flower sacks. More polling twice as many ballots as than 260 rounds of ammunition any other one orchestra. His have been given by the War De- music is sought by nearly one .partment for 'use in the sham fourth of all students. Kyser battle. was a favorite in the Southern The Red forces will be corn manded by Capt. Thomas G. Towsey '4l and Lieut. Oliver G. Summerton '4l. The Blues will be under the orders of Capt. John P. O'Leary '4l and Lieut. John W. Maclndoe '42. Grandstands seating 200 have been set up to accommodate spectators at the Water Tower, about one and a half miles south west of State College, from where most of the battle can be viewed. Harrisburg (Continued from Page One) sent maintenance appropriation. Another bill which has a good chance is the $300,000 aeronauti cal engineering bill, which, if matched by federal funds, would allow an airport to be built for the College to help defense train ing. Already passed by the Senate are bills for flax and coal and oil research. Many of these bills have been ready for action since January but political wrangling has push ed them aside. The Senate this year is Republican and the House is Democratic with the result that they are bound not to co operate with each other even if it does waste the taxpayers' money. About the only time the Re publicans have listened to the Democrats was when the Senate okayed a bill for Connie Mack Day which the Democrats had sponsored in the House. The reverse is equally true. Perhaps as much for the sake of stirring up political trouble as anything else, the Democratic house okayed a soil erosion in: vestigation. The crux of the mat ter was that the Republican state government wasn't doing what the Democratic federal govern ment wanted. Into his resolution demanding the investigation, Rep. Clayton E. Moul (D., York) slip ped an ace—no Penn State ap propriations were to be passed until his probe ended. ( The agricultural extension he aimed at gets only about $lO,OOO but he tied up $7,444,666.) Later, though Representative Moul eased the blow by sponsor ing two Penn State appropriation bills of his own, one for agricul tural research and one for agri cultural research buildings. Wed nesday his probe ended and now his bills are up for action. He is going to look silly if the Demo crats defeat them so ther is a good chance of their at least pass ing the House. Far, Far Away One globular star cluster is so distant from the earth that it takes light, traveling at 186,000 miles a second, 200,000 years to Austin, Texas, May 23—In practically every section of the old main Rears • nation the favorite dance orches tra of the American college stu- 'Cough Un" S4O dent is Glen Miller's. . Student Opinion Surveys of In Cigarette Buffs America, leaving aside political, social, and economic questions More than $4OO worth of cig that today bother the world and arette tobacco is thrown away in the collegian, has turned to the Old Main by Penn Staters in one field of college recreation, and in school year, a statistical compila a nation-wide poll finds that the tion has r - evealed. favorite recreations among col- A great majority of the 400 butts lege students are dancing, swim- ming, tennis, and reading. The collected in a single day's sweep ing of Old Main are at least half favorite dance bands of the swing unsmoked, janitors have estimat conscious students are Glen Mill- ed. Here and there, it is true, may er, Kay Kyser, Tommy Dorsey, be found a "butt definitely" less and a tie between Guy Lombardo than three-fourths of an inch in states, with Miller a close second. While dancing is the one thing most eds and coeds would' rather do when away from the class room, swimming is not as great a favorite with women as it is with men. Second choice of the women was tennis. Bridge was among the most popular of re creations. Among the most un usual mentioned were beer drink ing, writing, flying, sleeping, sing ing, eating, and—yes, studying. Drummond Honored Professor Laura W. Drum mond, chairman of the recently formed Pennsylvania Nutrition Council, has been invited to at tend a national nutrition confer ence for defense called by Presi dent Roosevelt for May 26 to 28 in Washington. Miss Drummond is head of the department of home economics at the College. SIGMA PHI SIGMA Room and Board for Summer Session 6 Weeks—SS ROOMS FOR INTERSESSIONI $3.00 PER WEEK Phone 3131—Inquire of George Hankins - THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATE COLLEGE Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation om •)rrk*Val length, but most of them measure fully one and three-eighths inches. Granting, then, that 40 half smoked cigarettes are the equiva lent of one pack, l 0 packs of po tential coughs are wasted in Old Main in a day, 70 in a week, and 2,520 in two semesters. Wasting eight cents on each pack, extrav agant smokers throw away $403.20 worth of valuable nicotine in a year. If all the butts collected in Old Main in one year were laid end to end in a line starting in front of the main gate and extending east ward, they would, if not molested. by hard-up students, reach almost to Lemont. Ocala national forest, Florida, contains a live oak - that grows on a table of its own roots. 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